Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
About Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
Dranem walks on, sings the comic song "Five O'Clock Tea," leaves the stage, and comes back to bow, as if the camera were a seat at the café-concert. Alice Guy filmed the phonoscène for Gaumont in 1905.
Cast & crew
More about Dranem Performs "Five O'Clock Tea"
One of twelve phonoscènes Dranem recorded for the Gaumont Chronophone. The song is by Jules Combe and Désiré Berniaux. The stage curtain carries Gaumont's G and daisy and spinning bouquets taken from a Dranem poster. The film runs three minutes and was released in 1905.
Themes
Technique
The picture was made to run with a Chronophone disc, an early sound-on-disc pairing.
Music
Dranem sings Jules Combe and Désiré Berniaux's "Five O'Clock Tea," a Chronophone record matched to the picture.
Preservation
The Gaumont DVD issue is missing part of the picture. The song continues while the image holds so the disc can stay in sync.
Notes
- On the 2008 Gaumont DVD Le cinéma premier 1897–1913, volume 1, the picture stops partway through the song so the rest of the recording can stay in sync.
Scenes
- Dranem finishes the verse, walks off, and returns for a bow in front of the Gaumont curtain.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-five-oclock-tea)
- Gaumont DVD Le cinéma premier 1897–1913, volume 1 (2008)
