* 1926 – In New York, New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

In 1926, Hollywood studio Warner Bros. introduced the " Vitaphone " system, producing short films of live entertainment acts and public figures and adding recorded sound effects and orchestral scores to some of its major features.

After this, thousands of Vitaphone shorts ( 1926 – 30 ) were made, many featuring bands, vocalists and dancers, in which a musical soundtrack played while the actors portrayed their characters just as they did in silent films: without dialogue.

The next few years saw a race to design, implement, and market several rival sound-on-disc and sound-on-film sound formats, such as Photokinema ( 1921 ), Phonofilm ( 1923 ), Vitaphone ( 1926 ), Fox Movietone ( 1927 ), and RCA Photophone ( 1928 ).

Through Vitaphone, Warner Bros. produced eight Vitaphone shorts ( which aired at the beginning of every showing of Don Juan across the country ) in 1926, and got many film production companies to question the necessity.

Today John Barrymore is known mostly for his portrayal of Hamlet and for his roles in movies like Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde ( 1920 ), Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ), Twentieth Century ( 1934 ), and Don Juan ( 1926 ), the first ever feature length movie to use a Vitaphone sound-on-film soundtrack.

The Warner Bros. technology, named Vitaphone, was publicly introduced on August 6, 1926, with the premiere of the nearly three-hour-long Don Juan ; the first feature-length movie to employ a synchronized sound system of any type throughout, its soundtrack contained a musical score and sound effects, but no recorded dialogue — in other words, it had been staged and shot as a silent film.

In April 1926, Warners signed a contract with AT & T for exclusive use of its film sound technology for the redubbed Vitaphone operation, leading to the production of Don Juan and its accompanying shorts over the following months.

* A Plantation Act ( 1926 ), a Vitaphone sound-on-disc short film starring Al Jolson.

* 1926: Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, silent film with Vitaphone soundtrack.

A Vitaphone projection setup at a 1926 demonstration.

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.

* Vitaphone introduced by Warner Brothers in 1926

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.

She wrote about her wartime experiences in The Big Show: My Six Months with the American Expeditionary Forces ( published in 1919 ), and recreated them in a 1926 Vitaphone musical short, Behind the Lines.

Taylor is possibly best recalled for her roles in the 1922 drama Monte Cristo, opposite John Gilbert ; the enormously successful 1923 Cecil B. DeMille directed The Ten Commandments as Miriam, the sister of Moses ; as Lucrezia Borgia in the 1926 Warner Bros .' first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack Don Juan, with John Barrymore, Mary Astor and Warner Oland ; 1927's New York, featuring Ricardo Cortez and Lois Wilson ; 1931's Street Scene with Sylvia Sidney ; the Academy Award-winning Cimarron ; and the Clara Bow talkie Call Her Savage in 1932.

Some films produced in 1926 – 1930 in sound-on-disc systems such as Vitaphone, where the sound discs are separate from the film element, are now considered lost because the sound discs were damaged or destroyed, while the picture element was not.

A Plantation Act ( 1926 ) is an early Vitaphone sound-on-disc short film starring Al Jolson.

In Argentina, the disease is known as mal de Chagas-Mazza, in honor of Salvador Mazza, the Argentine physician who in 1926 began investigating the disease and over the years became the principal researcher of this disease in the country.

Zinoviev began attacking Stalin within a matter of months, while Trotsky began attacking Stalin for this stance in 1926.

In 1926, Kodak lowered the price of panchromatic stock to parity with its orthochromatic offering and the panchromatic stock began to overtake the orthochromatic stock's market share within a few years.

Margaret Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926 to pass the time while recovering from an auto-crash injury that refused to heal.

In 1926 Krupp began the manufacture of Widia (“ Wie Diamant ”) cobalt-tungsten carbide.

In 1926, Oskar Klein proposed that the fourth spatial dimension is curled up in a circle of very small radius, so that a particle moving a short distance along that axis would return to where it began.

Mamie ( 1840 – 1926 ) had been twenty-one years old and Sis ( 1848 – 1928 ) thirteen when the Civil War began.

It also appears in Lost Laysen, the novella Mitchell wrote as a teenager in 1916, and in Mitchell's last known novel, Gone with the Wind, which she began writing in 1926.

Mitchell's journalism career, which began in 1922, came to an end less than four years later ; her last article appeared on May 9, 1926.

Poul William Anderson ( November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001 ) was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century.

He quit his job as a machinery draughtsman in 1926 and began studying business intensively.

With their arrival at the closing of 1926, the Italians began to move into the interior where they had not been able to venture since their first seizure of the coastal towns.

** UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends ( the strike began on May 3 ).

Muni began acting on Broadway in 1926.

The film began shooting in February 1926, with Valentino given his choice of director, and pairing him again with Vilma Banky.

In 1926, the American company ULEN began construction on the Marathon Dam in a valley above Marathon, in order to ensure water supply for Athens.

In July 1926, the Nationalists began the Northern Expedition, a massive military attempt to unify China.

In 1926, Waller began his recording association with Victor Records, his principal record company for the rest of his life, with the organ solos " St. Louis Blues " and his own composition, " Lenox Avenue Blues ".

In 1926, at the suggestion of Lord Beaverbrook, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the Evening Standard newspaper.

Negotiations for the settlement of the Roman Question began in 1926 between the government of Italy and the Holy See, and culminated in the agreements of the Lateran Pacts, signed — the Treaty says — for King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy by Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister and Head of Government, and for Pope Pius XI by Pietro Gasparri, Cardinal Secretary of State, on February 11, 1929.

But terrified at the prospect of losing Freud's approval, Ferenczi aborted his enthusiasm for The Trauma of Birth and began to distance himself personally from Rank – whom he shunned during a chance meeting in 1926 at Penn Station in New York.

In 1925-6 Two Worlds began to publish redrafted versions of previously published fragments, starting with " Here Comes Everybody " in December 1925, and then " Anna Livia Plurabelle " ( March 1926 ), " Shem the Penman " ( June 1926 ), and " Mamalujo " ( September 1925 ), all under the title " A New Unnamed Work ".

In October 1926, Hitler rewarded Goebbels for his new loyalty by making him the party " Gauleiter " for the Berlin section.

** The Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent.

Other movies influenced by or making use of Uncle Tom's Cabin include Dimples ( a 1936 Shirley Temple film ), Uncle Tom's Uncle, ( a 1926 Our Gang episode ), its 1932 remake Spanky, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I ( in which a ballet called " Small House of Uncle Thomas " is performed in traditional Siamese style ), and Gangs of New York ( in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend an imagined wartime adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin ).

The making of cordage ceased in 1867, and in 1926 the arsenal of Rochefort was closed.

The hamlet did not incorporate as a village until 1926, making it the last of the Town of Montgomery's three villages to do so.

In 1926, more than 100, 000 people attended Sousa ’ s last annual concert in the park, after twenty-five years of making music in the area.

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.

However these films did not do as well as her children styled roles ( though they were still successful at the box office ) and Pickford had reverted making films like Little Annie Rooney in 1925 and Sparrows in 1926.

Nancy Kelly ( March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995 ) was an American actress, who was a movie leading lady in the late 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James ( 1939 ), which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone later that same year.

Empress Kōjun was empress consort ( kōgō ) from 25 December 1926 to 7 January 1989, making her the longest lived empress consort in Japanese history.

) After 1926, Farnsworth Wright paid his contributors at the rate of one cent per word, double the going pulp rate of a half-cent per word ; but during the 1930s, the magazine was sometimes very late in making its payments to authors ( which was not unusual in the pulp field as a whole, at the time ).

According to the OED, the word is first attested in 1926, defined in the Wise-Crack Dictionary by Main and Grant as " a device used for making a fair game crooked ".

Polyvinyl chloride ( PVC ) was produced experimentally in the 19th century but did not become practical to manufacture until 1926, when Waldo Semon of BF Goodrich Co. developed a method to plasticize PVC, making it easier to process.

Early in 1926, the University of Münster offered Emil a professorial position ; however, Hamburg matched the offer financially, and ( as noted above ) promoted him to full professor, making him ( along with his young colleague Helmut Hasse ) one of the two youngest professors of mathematics in Germany.

The NWC was formed in 1926, making it one of the oldest athletics conferences in the western United States.

Thus, in 1926 aircraft fitted with mustard gas bomb whole villages, making Moroccan Rif of the first civilians gassed heavily in history, alongside the Iraqi Kurds gassed by the British.

The orchids were moved in 1926, but the pollution in St. Louis decreased with waning use of coal for heat, making it unnecessary to move the rest of the live plant collection.

The Company was formed in 1926 ; it was made a Livery Company by the City of London in 1932, making it the first new Livery Company to be formed in over a century.

It was in this position that Milch oversaw the merger of Junkers Luftverkehr to his previous firm of Deutscher Aero Lloyd in 1926, making him the first managing director of Deutsche Luft Hansa.

In 1926, the Daughters of the American Revolution had Margaret ’ s remains reburied and erected the Margaret Corbin Monument in the West Point Cemetery, making her one of only two Revolutionary War soldiers to be buried there.

He defeated Meighen on a vote of confidence after only three days, making the Meighen government of 1926 the shortest lived government in Canadian history.

Gardiner started film work in crowd scenes, making his big film break in 1926 in the silent film The Lodger, by Alfred Hitchcock.

She continued making films and was signed by Hal Roach Studios in 1926 after discussions with director / producer F. Richard Jones, who had directed her at Keystone.

He played for Gillingham between 1924 and 1926, making seven appearances in the Football League.