1926 in film
See also: 1925 in film, other events of 1926, 1927 in film, list of 'years in film'.
Events
- August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33 1/3 rpm discs developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio sunchronized 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 A. Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris.
Top Grossing Films of the Year
Births
- January 5 - Maria Schell, actress
- January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist (+ 1991)
- January 14 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress
- January 17 - Moira Shearer, actress, dancer
- January 19 - Fritz Weaver, actor
- January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress
- May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
- June 1 - Andy Griffith, actor
- June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress
- June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer