''Witt and Berg'' was the name of a

vaudeville Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition ...

duo during the 1920s. It consisted of ukulelist Bob Witt and

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ist Cy Berg. Largely forgotten today, they were popular with their charming singing voices.

''Premiere Entertainers'' and Other Films

The duo starred in an experimental

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sound film A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...

, recorded and produced by

The Vitaphone Corporation Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one th ...

. They sang a combination of Sonny Cunha's '' Honolulu Hula Girl'' and

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and L. Wolfe Gilbert's '' Hello, Aloha, How Are You?''. Another experimental sound film made in 1926 was '' The Voice from the Screen'', where a

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scientist explains the Vitaphone recording system and its labor, filming Witt and Berg from a different angle.

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