By the mid-twenties the British film industry was losing out to heavy competition from Hollywood, the latter helped by having a much larger home market-in 1914 25 % of films shown in the UK were British, but by 1926 this had fallen to 5 %.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

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 ).

In 1926, following the failure of Loughead, Allan Loughead formed the Lockheed Aircraft Company ( the spelling was changed to match its phonetic pronunciation ) in Hollywood.

* 1926: Another elaborate performance of the play was staged as a benefit for the Actors ' Fund of America at the Hollywood Bowl.

In 1926, Selznick moved to Hollywood, and with the help of his father's connections, got a job as an assistant story editor at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

He later emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and made three films, including Sunrise ( 1927 ), Four Devils ( 1928 ) and City Girl ( 1930 ).

Murnau emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and made Sunrise ( 1927 ), a movie often cited by film scholars as one of the greatest films of all time.

The production is notable for several reasons ; besides starring Frank Morgan, the play's female lead was Helen Menken ( who would marry Humphrey Bogart in 1926 ), and in his first Broadway outing, character actor Robert Keith, father of actor Brian Keith and one-time husband of Theater Guild actress Peg Entwistle, who committed suicide by jumping from the Hollywood Sign in 1932.

In the 1920s he worked as a journalist, in Hollywood as assistant director to Josef von Sternberg, and shooting newsreel footage in New York, before making his feature directing debut in 1926.

* Hollywood Stars, an American minor league baseball team that operated from 1926 – 1935 and 1938 – 1957

Clyde Nelson began developing Hollywood Boulevard as a residential subdivision in 1926.

The 1918 Harbor Area YWCA in a Craftsman building is still standing, as is the 1926 Hollywood Studio Club YWCA.

For 33 seasons, 1925 to 1957, the park was home to the Angels, and for 11 of those seasons, 1926 through 1935 and 1938, it had a second home team in the rival Hollywood Stars.

* Bradley, Edwin M. ( 2005 ), The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926 – 1931, McFarland & Company.

While working in Hollywood, in 1926 he returned to the stage, performing in several Broadway plays.

In 1926 he published a novel, Adams ( translated into English as Star Turn ), about a Hollywood star for whom the distinction between the real and unreal becomes blurred.

He moved to Hollywood in 1926 to begin a film career that lasted almost 50 years.

Kay Kendall, a famous Hollywood star in the 1950s, was born there in 1926.

* In 1926, Young helped get a $ 2 million harbor improvement bond measure overwhelmingly passed by voters in Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale.

* Peter Marshall ( U. S. entertainer ) ( born 1926 ), American game show host and singer ; original host and " The Master " of The Hollywood Squares, 1966 – 1981

John Sowden House in Hollywood, California, designed in 1926

* 45 Minutes From Hollywood ( 1926 )

It built its studio lot in Burbank in 1926.

Until the standardization of the projection speed of 24 frames per second ( fps ) for sound films between 1926 and 1930, silent films were shot at variable speeds ( or " frame rates ") anywhere from 12 to 26 fps, depending on the year and studio.

" By February 1926, the studio suffered a reported net loss of $ 333, 413.

Built initially as a as a music conservatoire in 1890, the site became a recording studio in 1926 for the Piccadilly label.

A few months later, the company moved into the back of a real estate office in downtown Los Angeles, until 1926 when the studio moved to a newly-constructed studio facility on Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district.

Loy in the 1926 film Across the PacificPortrait photographer Henry Waxman had taken several pictures of Loy, and they were noticed by Rudolph Valentino when the actor went to Waxman's studio for a sitting.

She became sufficiently famous for Columbia to invite her into the recording studio to make 78 rpm discs of four of the numbers she sang in these revues: Please sell no more drink to my father and He didn't oughter were on one disc ( recorded in 1926 ) and Don't tell my mother I'm living in sin and The Ladies Bar was on the other ( recorded 1930 ).

In December 1926 after receiving a joint contract offer from the American studio First National, Korda and his wife sailed for the United States on board the steamer Olympic.

The growing company needed space, and in 1926 Fox acquired < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 300 acres ( 1. 2 km < sup > 2 </ sup >)</ span > in the open country west of Beverly Hills and built " Movietone City ", the best-equipped studio of its time.

During his Brunswick career ( 1926 – 1932 ) a virtual who's who of great jazz musicians were members of Nichols ' studio recording sessions ; see below for more information.

From May 1924 to September 1926, the studio used Dr. Lee De Forest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process to produce 19 early cartoons with synchronized sound tracks, including Come Take a Trip in My Airship, Darling Nelly Gray, Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly and By the Light of the Silvery Moon.

In 1926 the company opened a recording studio in New York City equipped with the new electric microphones.

Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1, 000 short subjects made by Warner Brothers and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931.

The original company started radio test broadcasts in 1926, with a studio built in Istanbul in 1927 and a studio in Ankara following in 1928.

Later in 1926, WOR moved from its New York City studio on the 9th floor of Chickering Hall at 27 West 57th Street to 1440 Broadway, two blocks from Times Square.

By February 1926, the studio had suffered a reported net loss of $ 333, 413. 00.

In May 1926, through the company's partnership with Western Electric, Sam formed a subsidiary known as Vitaphone, Through Vitaphone, the studio released a series of musical shorts and the feature-length " Don Juan " ( which had a synchronized music track ); upon establishing Vitaphone, Sam was also made Vice President of Warner Bros. as well.

Laurel went on to join the Hal Roach studio, and began directing films, including a 1926 production called Yes, Yes, Nanette.

He studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris ( 1926 – 1930 ), where he received a first prize in painting in 1928 ( Lucien Simon's studio ).

The first was the 1923 Millard House in Pasadena, where Lloyd designed the grounds, and contributed an adjacent studio building in 1926.

Although known in the rebetiko context, and often referred to in song lyrics, well before it was allowed into the recording studio, the bouzouki was first commercially recorded not in Greece, but in America, in 1926.

By February 1926, however, the brothers ' radio business had failed, and the studio was facing a net loss of $ 333, 413. 00.