La Bohème, directed by King Vidor, starring Lillian Gish, John Gilbert and Renée Adorée.Bramble, 17-minute documentary about haunted castles in England Bodiam Castle and Eric the Slender (British), directed by A.The Black Pirate, directed by Albert Parker, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Billie Dove.Beverly of Graustark, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies and Antonio Moreno.The Bells, directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff.Beau Geste, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Ronald Colman and Alice Joyce.Battling Butler, directed by and starring Buster Keaton.The Bat, produced and directed by Roland West, based on the novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood.Bardelys the Magnificent, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman.Baddesley Manor - The Phantom Gambler (British), directed by Maurice Elvey, 17-minute documentary about haunted castles in England.Ashridge Castle - The Monmouth Rebellion (British), directed by Charles Calvert, 19-minute documentary about haunted castles in England. Ang Tatlong Hambog (The Three Humbugs), directed by Jose Nepomuceno, starring Luis Tuason, Dimples Cooper - Philippines.Aloma of the South Seas, directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Gilda Gray & William Powell.The Adventures of Prince Achmed, directed by Lotte Reiniger – ( Germany).Ang Tatlong Hambog (The Three Humbugs), the first Filipino film to feature a kissing (make out) scene, is released in the Philippines.įor the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1926 0-9.Al Jolson films A Plantation Act, one of the first unreleased talkies and a test film for The Jazz Singer.One of the first newsreels is of Charles Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris. Fox begin to create Movietone News newsreels at this time. is formed in an effort to exploit the system, which is given the name Movietone. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation. December 5 – The 1925 Soviet film Battleship Potemkin premieres in the United States, at the Biltmore Theatre in Manhattan.October 7 – Warner Brothers release the second Vitaphone film, The Better 'Ole, starring Sydney Chaplin.Riots occur at the funeral parlor as thousands of people try to see his body. August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, whose film The Son of the Sheik was currently playing, dies at the age of 31 in New York.The Vitaphone system uses multiple 33 + 1⁄ 3 rpm gramophone records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back music and sound effects synchronized with film. August 5 – Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan.It is called The Adventures of Prince Achmed ( Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed). February – The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the Weimar Republic, directed by Lotte Reiniger. The top ten 1926 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:
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