The Rollicking Rajah
Watch TrailerFilmed using Vivaphone sound system. This was invented by Cecil M. Hepworth, and performers mimed to a 10" record. In this particular case, the singer and performer are not the same: Harry Buss is lip-syncing to singer Harry Fay (believed to be an alias of Stanley Kirkby).
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📋 Film Details
| Year | 1913 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Runtime | 4 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 4.0/10 (1 votes) |
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The film constructs itself as a practical demonstration of the Vivaphone system, where the central spectacle is the precise lip-syncing to a prerecorded disc. It relies on a straightforward premise to showcase a novel audio-visual trick for its era.
What lingers after viewing is the charming artifice of the performance—a historical snippet that feels less like a narrative comedy and more like a playful test of early film sound technology. — MovieFinder Editorial
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With a curious smile, as a short, quirky relic of cinema's early experiments with sound.
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