The First Talkie Movie Featuring Ukulele and Guitar?
January 8th, 2008
I got this clip from Gary Peare over at Ukulelia, who had been doing some sleuthing on YouTube and turned up this wonderful clip of Witt and Berg, a guitar/ukulele duo from the 1920s, playing in a Vitaphone short. In an extra cool addition, he also found a documentary about early sound movies that includes a segment filmed in 1926 at the Vitaphone studios that shows the company filming the Witt and Berg segment. It worth heading over to Ukulelia to read his full post, which includes a link to the documentary and some speculation from me about the instruments Witt and Berg are playing.-MJS


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