CINEMA made a noisy leap forward on Aug. 6, 1926. At the Warner Theater in New York City, Warner Bros. premiered the John Barrymore swashbuckler “Don Juan,” a showcase for Vitaphone, one of the early ...
1926: The Vitaphone sound-on-film process is announced by Warner Bros. studio. It’s the death knell for the age of silent films. Vitaphone was prone to human error, since the alignment of the film ...