A Musical Monologue (1923)

Directed by

Lee de Forest

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A vaudeville performer sings and plays the accordion in front of a camera. This is an early sound film demonstration.

liveold-timeyintimateupbeathistoricalunpolishednostalgicsimple

What happens

A Musical Monologue is a 1923 American short film produced by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film features Phil Baker, well-known vaudevillian, singing and playing the accordion. This film was one of the films DeForest showed on April 12, 1923 to an audience of electrical engineers at the Engineering Society Building's Auditorium at 33 West 39th Street in New York City. The film premiered with 17 other short Phonofilms on April 15, 1923 at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs (1923)
• Stage Fright (1923)
• A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (1923)
• Little Miss Hollywood (1923)
• Little Johnny Jones (1923)
• Breaking Into Society (1923)
• Broadway Gold (1923)
• Broken Hearts of Broadway (1923)