Carlena Diamond in "Harpist Supreme" (1929) directed by Murray Roth. 35mm, 6 minutes.
Between 1926 and 1930 Warner Brothers produced over a thousand small films featuring actors, opera singers, comedians, musicians and vaudeville stars using their new! state of the art! Vitaphone system.
The 10 minute featurettes were intended to show the virtues of Vitaphone which synchronized sound and moving pictures through a 16” record that was played along with the projector. Pre-dating “The Jazz Singer”, these Vitaphone gems pretty much disappeared from public view.
