Der verliebte Bimbambulla (Bimbambulla) Foxtrot (M.May/Charles Amberg) Tanz-Orchester Géza Komor mit Refraingesang Tri Ergon 5628-A/ 02750 Berlin, c. August 1929 THE TRI-ERGON LABEL Tri-Ergon is out of old greek and means "Work of (the) three" The recording process for this Label used early sound on film technic; That means that first the sound was cut on an film, than after possible editing transferred to the phonograph/grammophon record. The inventors hoped to make a better sounding record. Before I came back to the Label, a lttle look back on early sound on film Talking Movie technic. In 1918 three german innovators had the Idea of recording sound directly on the film with light via a photo cell. The Tri-Ergon sound-on-film system was patented in 1919 by the inventors Josef Engl (1893-1942), Hans Vogt (1890-1979), and Joseph Massolle (1889-1957). On 17. September 1922 the three introduced in the Alhambra Theater/Berlin the first (short) talking movie with a sound track on the film. Almost half a year before Lee De Forest presented his Phonofilm in the USA! (De Forest improved the patents by Tri-Ergon and Eric Tigerstedt in Finland) In the lack of money, TriErgon sold their patents to the Tri-Ergon AG in Zürich/Swiss. The german cinema company UFA verifyed the chance of the new soundfilm. In Summer 1925 they sponsored a sound movie "Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern" (The Girl with the match). The film premiered in December 1925. But technical problems made it a ...
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