The film clips on this page are the result of a cross between current entertainment and new technology (in 1925, that is). A decade before the Old Maestro would say 'Yowsah, Yowsah' and 'Au revoir, pleasant dreams' on the radio, Ben Bernie, impressed with Paul Witheman's approach to music, formed an orchestra using players from a band led by Don Juelle. Originally scheduled for a limited engagement, the orchestra played exclusively at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York from 1923 to 1929. Ben Bernie and His Orchestra recorded on the Vocalion label in 1923 and, in 1925, on the Brunswick label.
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At the same time, Lee DeForest invented a sound-on-film process for talking pictures. The Deforest Phonofilm Corporation was formed in November 1922. Several years before the release of the Warner Brothers/Vitaphone film "The Jazz Singer", considered by many people as the beginning of sound films, DeForest produced a series of Phonofilms and sought out theaters to distribute them. However, due to the loyalty of theaters to the major film producers and the expense of wiring a theater for sound, his attempts only met with limited success.
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