Nine years before Al Jolson sang to the world in The Jazz Singer (1927), three Germans . - Hans Vogt, Joseph Massolle and Joseph Engl - patented Tri-Ergon, a sound-on-film system that was unveiled to the public at the Alhambra Cinema in : Berlin on 17 September 1922. Unfortunately, technical breakdowns at the premiere of the first Tri-Ergon feature, Das Machen mit den Schwefelholzern (The Little Match Girl) (1925), made the German industry wary of adopting it and getting a head start with talkies.
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