In 1927, when Williams moved to OKeh Records, he took Jefferson with him, and OKeh quickly recorded and released Jefferson's " Matchbox Blues " backed with " Black Snake Moan ," which was to be his only OKeh recording, probably because of contractual obligations with Paramount.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

Paramount Pictures tried to repeat the success of Flaherty's Nanook and Moana with two romanticized documentaries, Grass ( 1925 ) and Chang ( 1927 ), both directed by Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack.

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.

* A Trip Through the Paramount Studio ( 1927 short )

The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957.

When Paramount moved to its present home in 1927, it was in the heart of the film community.

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warner brothers in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that allowed other film companies to test sound.

Alfred Hugenberg, a nationalist businessman, cancelled UFA's debt to Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after taking charge of the company in April 1927, and chose to halt distribution in German cinemas of Metropolis in its original form.

Wings is a 1927 silent film about World War I fighter pilots, produced by Lucien Hubbard, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures.

In February 1927, an agreement was signed by five leading Hollywood movie companies: the so-called Big Two — Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a pair of studios in the next rank — Universal and the fading First National — and Cecil B. DeMille's small but prestigious Producers Distributing Corporation ( PDC ).

In total, McDaniel recorded 7 sessions ; 1 in summer of 1926 for the rare Kansas City label Meritt, 4 sessions in Chicago for OKeh ( late 1926-late 1927 )-of the 10 sides, only 4 were issued, and 2 sessions in Chicago for Paramount ( both in March, 1929 ).

In 1927 Bow appeared in six Paramount releases: It, Children of Divorce, Rough House Rosie, Wings, Hula and Get Your Man.

It was closely followed by another example of pure boogie-woogie, " Honky Tonk Train Blues " by Meade Lux Lewis, recorded by Paramount Records ; ( 1927 ), first released in March 1930.

In the U. S., newsreel series included The March of Time ( 1935 – 1951 ), Pathé News ( 1910 – 1956 ), Paramount News ( 1927 – 1957 ), Fox Movietone News ( 1928 – 1963 ), Hearst Metrotone News ( 1914 – 1967 ), and Universal Newsreel ( 1929 – 1967 ).

* Paramount News newsreel series produced by Paramount Pictures from 1927 to 1957

Today, Paramount ( through Republic, which the studio's parent company, Viacom, acquired in 1999 ), in a twist of irony, now owns the original elements to its 1927 – September 1950 output they themselves originally released ( in addition to the April 1962 – 1967 non-Comic King shorts ( except Frog's Legs, starring Little Lulu, which Paramount still owns ) they have retained the rights to and the 1961 Noveltoon, Alvin's Solo Flight, also starring Little Lulu ).

A 1927 rendition of " Honky Tonk Train Blues " on the Paramount Records label marked his recording debut.

The alternate names of the filming site are Providencia Flats, Nestor Ranch, Oak Ranch, Oak Crest Ranch, Universal Ranch / Universal City, Lasky Ranch, and Paramount Ranch until November 1927.

His first record, " Big Bill's Blues " backed with " House Rent Stomp ", credited to " Big Bill and Thomps " ( Paramount 12656 ), was released in 1927.

* 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.

The first verse of the 1927 version is sung by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra at the start of the MGM musical film, Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), a movie that also features a song about the famous and fictitious double play combination, O ' Brien to Ryan to Goldberg.

By 1927, Shearer had made a total of thirteen silent films for MGM.

He was hired by 20th Century Fox in 1924, and then MGM in 1927 to head its short features department.

MGM capitalized on her relationship with Gilbert after their huge hit, Flesh and the Devil by costarring them again in two more hits, Love ( 1927 ) and A Woman of Affairs ( 1928 ).

His first film for MGM, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg ( 1927 ), was well regarded, but lost money.

In 1927 – 28, at the end of the silent era, the production cost of an average feature from a major Hollywood studio ranged from $ 190, 000 at Fox to $ 275, 000 at MGM.

In 1927 Costello went to Hollywood to become an actor, but could only find work as a laborer or extra at MGM and Warner Brothers.

A few years after he joined MGM, Thalberg began dating actress Norma Shearer, and they married in 1927.

She appeared opposite John Gilbert in the MGM film Man, Woman and Sin ( 1927 ), directed by Monta Bell.

In 1927, Frances Marion, an MGM screenwriter, came to Dressler's rescue.

Her first MGM feature was The Callahans and the Murphys ( 1927 ), a rowdy silent comedy co-starring Dressler ( as Ma Callahan ) with another former Mack Sennett comedienne, Polly Moran, written by Marion.

Despite their rocky off-screen relationship, they continued to generate box-office revenue for the studio, and MGM paired them in two more silents Love ( 1927 ), a modern adaptation of Anna Karenina, and A Woman of Affairs ( 1928 ).

* Good News ( films ), two American MGM musical films based on the 1927 stage production

In 1927, Marcus Loew, head of rival studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer died, and control of MGM passed to his longtime associate, Nicholas Schenck.

He worked as an extra, stunt man and bit player from 1927 to 1928, when he signed a contract with MGM, where he was cast in a major role in The Jazz Age ( 1929 ), and got his first leading role that same year, in The Silver Horde.

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warners in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed the Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that it was no longer exclusive and that other film companies could test sound with Western Electric as well.

Lord Kelvin, " One Heck of a Prognosticator, president of the Royal Society in the 1890s, and disbeliever in virtually every scientific discovery ," claimed that “ Radio has no future ,” “ I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning ,” and “ X-rays will prove to be a hoax ;” Orville Wright, in 1908 claimed that “ No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ;” and Irving Thalberg, MGM movie producer, asserted in 1927 that “ Novelty is always welcome, but talking pictures are just a fad .” Thus, making forecasts of the future has a historic basis in which many of the predictions by even experts have proven inaccurate.

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warners in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed the Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that it was no longer exclusive and that other film company's could test sound with Western Electric as well ; the Warners were even forced to sell some of their stock to Harry Cohn, the head of the independent film company Columbia Pictures.

In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) was established by Louis B. Mayer, originator of Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation, which then would be joined into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), to unite the five branches of the film industry, including actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers.

In 1928, a few months after Famous Players-Lasky's September 1927 reorganization under the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, Waters left the studio to begin a lengthy sojourn with MGM, where his initial directorial assignments consisted of two Tim McCoy series westerns, The Overland Telegraph and Sioux Blood which, when released in March and April 1929, respectively, were among MGM's last silent features.

Marcus Loew ( May 7, 1870 – September 5, 1927 ) was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ).

MGM released King of Kings in 1961, inspired by a Cecil B. DeMille film of the same title from 1927.