Abends nach Neune

Most people think movies with sound came into existence in 1927, but Edison's studio experimented with marrying the movie camera and the phonograph in the 1890s; and in Europe, from about 1906-1908, Gaumont, under Alice Guy's direction, and in Germany, Deutsch Bioskop, produced a series of short (usually three-minute) films in which performers offered -- usually -- a bit of song and dance. German Bioskop even had a theater dedicated to showing these sound shorts.