Shortly after the turn of the century, he took acting lessons from actor Hermann Romany at the Vienna Theater School.
[citation needed] In 1919, he co-developed the NotoFilm system for adding sound to a film (also called Czerny-Springefeld method ).
In the system sheet music was copied into part of a film image, which was to serve as a score for the conductor and orchestra present in a cinema theater.
During the music passages, the conductor was able to direct the melody from the images of the notes running at the bottom of the picture; Singers in the hall tried to perform their arias on the screen in sync with the actors' lip movements.
As early as 1934, after the completion of his only sound feature film (the boy's story Die Gange vom Hoheneck), the Nazis, who had come to power the year before, forced all production activities to cease.