The Rollicking Rajah (1913)
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 4 min
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A performer lip-syncs to a pre-recorded song in an early sound-film experiment. The film was made using the Vivaphone system which required actors to mime to a phonograph record.
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