MOULIN ROUGE (1928) with synchronized score

[Ed Watz]

Directed by E.A. Dupont and starring Olga Chekhova, Eve Gray and Jean Bradin. Due to the popularity of sound films, the American company Sono Art-World Wide Pictures collaborated with B.I.P. to produce a sound version of the film for cinemas wired for sound. They recorded the soundtrack using the RCA Photophone sound system. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

A frantic first 26 minutes or so in which highlights of a two hour revue are condensed and accelerated thanks to hyper-undercranking. Contemporary moviegoers were probably exhausted - I nearly expected to see Larry Semon appear as the stagehand.

https://youtu.be/tdp_SzkNq6Y?si=LwVTXa6w3SINS7E7