1926: The Vitaphone sound-on-film process is announced by Warner Bros. studio. It’s the death knell for the age of silent films. Vitaphone was prone to human error, since the alignment of the film ...

August 6, 1926 marked the premiere of Don Juan, a film about a charming womanizer. It also marked the first time audiences were presented with a feature-length film complete with synchronized ...

Those attending the 15th annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood next month will have an opportunity to engage with Mel Brooks and Vitaphone, both born in 1926. One’s extinct, the other’s still ...

EIGHTY years ago this month, Warner Bros. was a struggling, family-owned business on the verge of bankruptcy when it decided to gamble its future on sound movies. Tuesday, the same studio releases a ...

Undoubtedly the best thing Vitaphone has ever put on the screen. The combination of the religious heart interest story [based on the play by Samson Raphaelson] and Jolson's singing 'Kol Nidre' in a ...

If you know about Vitaphone shorts, the news that a newly restored selection is ready for public viewing courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive is all the information you need. If you haven’t ...

The 60 short films that make up Warner Archive’s “Vitaphone Varieties” (1926-30) four-disc set were made when sound was in its infancy. They’re a fascinating time capsule, not only of early talkies ...