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

Events

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 Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris.