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This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition from silent film to sound, between 1926 and 1929. [1] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone , as well as sound on ...
Sesto Continente, directed by Folco Quilici, was the first full-length, full-color underwater documentary. [64] [65] The much more famous The Silent World, released in 1956, is frequently erroneously claimed as such. Dragnet is the first theatrical film based on a television series.
Filmed in the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system, it is the first all-talking full-length feature film. It was released by Warner Bros., who had introduced the first feature-length film with synchronized sound, Don Juan, in 1926; and the first with spoken dialogue, The Jazz Singer, in 1927.
On DVD Dancing Sweeties: July 19, 1930: On DVD Road to Paradise (FN) July 20, 1930: On DVD Three Faces East: July 26, 1930: On DVD The Matrimonial Bed: August 2, 1930: On DVD Sweet Kitty Bellairs: August 9, 1930: All Technicolor. Extant In Black and White. On DVD Numbered Men (FN) August 6, 1930: Moby Dick: August 14, 1930: On DVD Oh Sailor ...
Fox Movie Corporation: John Wayne's first starring role in a movie. Still survives in widescreen and is available on DVD. The Bat Whispers: 1930 BW United Artists: Still survives in fullscreen and widescreen versions. The Great Meadow: 1931 BW MGM: Unknown if it was released in widescreen due to the decline of widescreen to the movie going public.
In 1927, the sound film The Jazz Singer was released; while not the first sound film, it made a tremendous hit and made the public and the film industry realize that sound film was more than a mere novelty. The Jazz Singer used a process called Vitaphone that involved synchronizing the projected film to sound recorded on a disc. It essentially ...
Sound mix list on the Internet Movie Database Index of early sound films of the silent era, from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett The origins of the Firm "Tobis-Klang" The first release that used this system was the partially silent German film Melodie der Welt .
Goldin chose to attempt a more serious – and expensive – approach. He found new investors and, in 1931, spent $20,000 on making the musical Zayn Vayb's Liubovnik ("His Own Wife's Lover"), the first full-length sound feature film in the language. Goldin continued to direct, and though leading as the most prolific Yiddish film director in ...