The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

Production on The Circus resumed, and the film was completed in October 1927.

* In 1927, a feature-length silent film Casey at the Bat was released, starring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, and ZaSu Pitts.

* 1927 – Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

* 1927 – Robert Hossein, French film actor and director

Vertov lost his job at Sovkino in January 1927, possibly as a result of criticizing a film which effectively preaches the line of the Communist Party.

* The Enemy ( 1927 film ), starring Lillian Gish

It was clear that Edison originally intended to create a sound film system, which would not gain worldwide recognition until the release of " The Jazz Singer " in 1927.

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.

The Cinematograph Films Act 1927 introduced protective measures, leading to recovery and an all-time production high of 192 films in 1936 ( see 1936 in film ).

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.

He also worked on the scripts for Honesty-The Best Policy in 1926 and Joseph von Sternberg's Underworld in 1927, famous for being one of the first gangster film.

The film starred Louise Fazenda, Dorothy Phillips and Ethel Wales and was shot in early 1927.

The film was released in May 1927 and was a minor hit.

Although finished in August 1927, the film was not released until June 1928.

The film was filmed from October to December 1927 and released in February 1928.

* 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

* 1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was not only the first film with synchronized dialogue, but the first feature film that was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing " Dirty Hands, Dirty Face ;" " Toot, Toot, Tootsie ", " Blue Skies " and " My Mammy ".

With these aids, and a pair of skiis substituting for wheels on the Waco, Bob Fogg made the first landing on what is now part of the Barre-Montpelier Airport on November 21, 1927.

Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.

* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an aircraft ( between New York City and Paris ).

Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year.

Trotskyists argue that the party was doomed to its present character, that of petty-bourgeois nationalism in the 1920s, because of the near-annihilation of the workers ' movement in the KMT betrayal of 1927, which was made possible by Stalin's order that the Communists join with the KMT in a centrist coalition, effectively disarming it, which opportunity the KMT swiftly exploited to defeat the communist revolution.

They made three feature films together during 1926 and 1927, all of them becoming successful with the critics and the public.

However, in May 1927, during a row over clandestine Soviet support for the General Strike and the distribution of subversive propaganda, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made details from the decrypts public.

In 1927, the Gennett studios in Richmond, Indiana, made a recording of black fiddler Jim Booker with other instrumentalists ; their recordings were labeled " made for Hillbilly " in the Gennett files, and were marketed to a white audience.

The first was made in the company of his mother while traveling from the United States to Guam in 1927.

In February 1927 the first section, between Paddington and the West Central District Office, was made available for training.

In this period, Pickford also made Sparrows ( 1926 ), which blended the Dickensian with newly minted German expressionist style, and the romantic comedy My Best Girl ( 1927 ).

In 1927 Paramount and MGM, Hollywood's two top studios, noting the profits being made by companies like Pathé Exchange and Educational, both re-entered the production and distribution of short subjects after several years.

In early 1927, Mao returned to Hunan where, in an urgent meeting held by the Communist Party, he made a report based on his investigations of the peasant uprisings in the wake of the Northern Expedition.

File: Lemaitre. jpg | Georges Lemaître ( 1894-1966 ): first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law, made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant which he published in 1927 ( two years before Hubble's article ), proposed the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe

Before the release of Moana, Flaherty made two short films in New York City with private backing, The Pottery Maker ( 1925 ) and The Twenty-Four Dollar Island ( 1927 ).

The New York Times made an early reference to " Radio Row " in 1927, when Cortlandt Street celebrated a " Radio Jubilee ".

Around 1927, the virtuoso's situation brightened ; he had exciting commissions from Diaghilev and made concert tours in Russia ; in addition, he enjoyed a very successful staging of The Love for Three Oranges in Leningrad ( as Saint Petersburg was then known ).

In 1927, Philo Farnsworth made the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices, which he first demonstrated to the press on 1 September 1928.

* Leyland Titan ( front engined double-decker ), a chassis for double-decker buses, made from 1927 to 1970

The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 made general strikes illegal and ended the automatic payment of union members to the Labour Party.

Paul Hindemith and Vadim Borisovsky made an early attempt at an organization in 1927 with the Violists ' World Union.

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Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).