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1926 in film can be found under the following categories:
Years in film
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Events
August -
Warner Brothers
debuts the first
Vitaphone
film,
Don Juan
. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ 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
Movietone
. Fox began to create
Movietone News
newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels was
Charles Lindbergh
's takeoff for
Paris
.
Al Jolson
films
A Plantation Act
one of the first unreleased talkies and a test film for
The Jazz Singer
The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the
Weimar Republic
, directed by
Lotte Reiniger
. It is called
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
.
Top grossing films
Rank
Title
Gross
1.
Aloma of the South Seas
2.
What Price Glory?
3.
The Great K and A Train Robbery
4.
Beau Geste
5.
Flesh and the Devil
6.
Sparrows
7.
For Heaven's Sake
8.
My Yankee Senor
9.
Don Juan
10.
The Sea Beast
11.
La Bohème
12.
The Temptress
13.
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