Shown here, a hundred years ago today, in the Washington Evening Star, March 9, 1923, is film star Jackie Coogan, talking from WGY radio in Schenectady, NY.  The device shown is the pallophotophone, used for recording sound on film.

Uncle Fester. Wikipedia image.

If the actor’s name rings a bell, it’s because he went on to play Uncle Fester in the Addams Family.  Perhaps his trademark image with the lightbulb in his mouth was inspired by the pallophotophone.