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Warner Bros. introduced Vitaphone on August 5, 1926, with the premiere of their silent feature Don Juan,[3]which had been retrofitted with a symphonic musical score and sound effects. There was no spoken dialog.
The 1987 discovery, by Robert Gitt of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, of some 2,000 Vitaphone discs hidden at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, was a monumental event in the restitution of the Vitaphone catalogue.
In The Jazz Singer …bought a sound-on-disc system called Vitaphone and debuted the system in 1926 with Don Juan, a lavish costume drama featuring a score performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. However, The Jazz Singer, the second Vitaphone feature, was the first full feature film to have a sound track that included… Read More
Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one which was widely used and commercially successful.
Aug 6, 2020 · But the second and third run exhibitors could not afford to hire live orchestra. Western Electric, the manufacturing subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph Company made a sophisticated...
Apr 19, 2018 · Another experimental sound film made in 1926 was "The Voice from the Screen," where Edward B. Craft, executive vice president at Bell Laboratories, explains the Vitaphone recording system and its...
Feb 25, 2023 · Vitaphone was a sound film system used by Warner Bros. and First National from 1926 to 1931. It was the last major analog sound-on-disc system, with a separate soundtrack recorded on phonograph records played on a turntable coupled to the projector motor.
