page_title: Tri-Ergon
section_title: Tri-Ergon records
hierarchical_section_title: Tri-Ergon / Tri-Ergon records
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kabarett der Komiker: Bernard Etté mit Orchester; dirigierend
context_page_description: The Tri-Ergon sound-on-film system was developed from around 1919 by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Joseph Massolle, and Hans Vogt.
  The system used a photoelectric recording method and a non-standard film size which incorporated the sound track with stock 35mm film. With a Swiss backer, the inventors formed Tri-Ergon AG in Zurich, and tried to interest the market with their invention.
  Ufa acquired the German sound film rights for the Tri-Ergon process in 1925, but dropped the system when the public showing of their first sound film suffered technical failures.
  The Tri-Ergon system appeared at a time when a number of other sound film processes were arriving on the market, and the company soon merged with a number of competitors to form the Tobis syndicate in 1928, joined by the Klangfilm AG syndicate in 1929 and renamed as Tobis-Klangfilm by 1930. While Tri-Ergon became the dominant sound film process in Germany and much of Europe through its use by Tobis-Klangfilm, American film companies were still squabbling over their respective patents.
context_section_description: A subsidiary, Tri-Ergon Musik AG of Berlin, made commercial phonograph records for the German, French, Swedish and Danish markets from about 1928 to 1932. The records were advertised and sold as "Tri-Ergon Photo-Electro-Records".
  The company released records of popular jazz and dance bands, and classical music. The Hungarian dance band leader Géza Komor made numerous records under both his own name and under the pseudonym of 'Harry Jackson'; other recording artists included Bernard Etté, and Friedrich Hollaender with the New Yorkers dance orchestra (e.g. "It's a Million to One You're in Love", TE 5137).
  Classical artists included the conductor and pianist Bruno Seidler-Winkler (who later made arrangements for the Comedian Harmonists) and the Tri-Ergon-Trio consisting of the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, the pianist Karol Szreter, and the violinist Max Rostal.
caption: Bernard Etté in 1938
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