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    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...
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  • "Vitaphone" can refer to: Vitaphone Corp., the name for Vitagraph Studios after being bought by Warner Bros. in 1925 Vitaphone – a sound-on-disc system...
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  • Vitaphone Racing, or Vita4One, was a German racing team who participate in the FIA GT Championship. The team was actually Bartels Motor & Sport GmbH,...
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    Vitaphone Varieties is a series title (represented by a pennant logo on screen) used for all of Warner Bros.', earliest short film "talkies" of the 1920s...
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  • Introduction of Vitaphone Sound Pictures is a 1926 Vitaphone short film released by Warner Brothers on August 6, 1926. It was one of the first talking...
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  • numbered accordingly: No. 1 / Vitaphone No. 1005, released May 4, 1930 No. 2 / Vitaphone No. 1038, June 11, 1930 No. 3 / Vitaphone No. 1053, August 31, 1930...
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    films and effectively marked the end of the silent film era with the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, featuring six songs performed by Al Jolson. Based...
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  • extant for films recorded with Vitaphone soundtracks. List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features Vitaphone Movietone RCA Photophone Sound Film...
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    MC12s into the FIA GT, Vitaphone Racing and JMB Racing, finished first and second respectively in the Team Cup, with Vitaphone winning by a considerable...
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  • Vitaphone Pictorial Revue (sometimes spelled “Review”) was a series of 9-11 minute newsreel oriented (documentary) film shorts produced by Vitaphone and...
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  • vaudeville shows, frequently appeared in short musical films such as Vitaphone's Broadway Brevities and Paramount's animated Screen Songs, and often appeared...
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    Singer, which premiered on October 6, 1927. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology....
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    by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound...
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    records in 1923, and in the early 1930s starred in comedy shorts for Vitaphone in Brooklyn, New York. His wide-eyed, good-natured expression gained him...
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    act and played on the road for a few months. He landed at Brooklyn's Vitaphone Studios for movie appearance opportunities in May 1933. When he split...
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    second full-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process, two months after the first Vitaphone feature Don Juan; with no audible dialogue...
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    corsaro nero (1921). She also performed at Keith Circuit. In 1931 the Vitaphone short-subject studio signed Fanny Watson (the stout one of the sister...
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    "That's the Good Old Sunny South". This was followed by appearances in two Vitaphone shorts the following year: A Holiday in Storyland (featuring Garland's...
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  • As noted above, only five were made in 1930 and 1931. According to The Vitaphone Project, which tracks the status of early Warner Bros. sound films, all...
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  • Edison's Kinetoscope and the Vitaphone used by Warner Bros., laid the groundwork for synchronized sound in film. The Vitaphone system, produced alongside...
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  • The “Vitaphone Color Parade” was a series of documentary short films produced by Warner Bros. The majority of these one-reel (under 10 minutes) short...
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    7200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films 1912-29 at the Library of Congress Vitaphone Project finds and restores Vitaphone films and their soundtrack discs...
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    successfully released as a Vitaphone talkie in 1927, Hollywood film companies would respond to Warner Bros. and begin to use Vitaphone sound—which Warner Bros...
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    first roadshow performances in Detroit and Cincinnati. Shemp landed at Vitaphone Studios in Brooklyn in May 1933, where he stayed for almost four years...
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    were made by Lee de Forest in 1923–24. Beginning in 1926, thousands of Vitaphone shorts were made, many featuring bands, vocalists, and dancers. The earliest...
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    the sound engineer company Western Electric and established Vitaphone. In 1926, Vitaphone began making films with music and effects tracks, most notably...
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    the Gold Diggers" (WB Vitaphone orchestra and stage chorus) ¶ – "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine" (Nick Lucas with WB Vitaphone orchestra and stage chorus)...
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    Through the Tulips", which survives in a fully synchronized and preserved Vitaphone disc. The same year, Lucas was featured in the studio's all-star revue...
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  • records of talks and music. The early sound-on-disc processes such as Vitaphone were soon superseded by sound-on-film methods like Fox Movietone, DeForest...
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    Broadway to Hollywood (1933). Shemp appeared without the Stooges in the 1934 Vitaphone short Smoked Hams with Lionel Stander and Daphne Pollard. Moe and Curly...
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