1926 in film

1926 in film

Table of contents
1 Events
2 Top Grossing Films of the Year
3 Other Films Released
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 Other Movies Released

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 Movietone[?]. FOX began to create Movietone News[?] newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels was Charles A. Lindbergh[?]'s takeoff for Paris.