Home > 1926 in film
1 Events
- August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33 1/3 rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film.
- Theodore W. Case and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation. The Fox-Case Corp. was formed in an effort to exploit the system, which was given the name MovietoneMovietone was created ever since silent movies came out, and was the primary source of news and current events for moviegoers until the first black and white television set came out in the late 1940s.. Fox began to create Movietone NewsMovietone News produced cinema newsreels from 1929- 1979. The University of South Carolina has a portion of the Fox Movietone newsreel collection. See also The March of Time Newsreels. newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels was Charles LindberghCharles Augustus Lindbergh II ( February 4, 1902 August 26, 1974) was a pioneering United States aviator famous for the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Early life Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan as son of Swedish immigrants.'s takeoff for ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to.
2 Top grossing films
- Aloma of the South Seas
- What Price Glory
3 Films released
Films released in 1926 include:
- Aloma of the South Seas , starring Gilda Gray .
- Battling Butler , a Buster KeatonJoseph Francis "Buster" Keaton ( October 4, 1895 February 1, 1966) was a popular and influential American silent-film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy while keeping a deadpan expression on his face at all times, which earned hi film.
- The Black PirateThe Black Pirate is a 1926 adventure film which tells the story of a young nobleman who infiltrates a ship full of pirates to avenge his father's death. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse and Billie Dove. In one long, dramatic sce, starring Douglas FairbanksDouglas Fairbanks ( May 23, 1883 December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He became noted for his swashbuckling roles in such movies as The Mark of Zorro ( 1920), The Three Musketeers ( 1921), Robin Hood ( 1922), The.
- FaustFaust is the protagonist of a popular German tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works. It concerns the fate of a learned gentleman, Faust, who summons the Devil, who in the tale is usually called Mephistopheles, and offers t, directed by F.W. Murnau.
- Flesh and the Devil , starring John Gilbert and Greta Garbo.
- Madame Mystery , starring Theda Bara.
- Scarlet Letter, starring Lillian Gish.
- The Son of the Sheik , starring Rudolph Valentino.
- Sparrows , starring Mary Pickford.
- What Price Glory , starring Edmund Lowe , Victor McLaglen and Dolores del Rio.
