Steven Spielberg, Alexander Payne, David Fincher and Ken Jennings also are headed to the April 18-21 event in Hollywood. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Those attending the 15th annual TCM Classic Film ...

If you know about Vitaphone shorts, the news that a newly restored selection is ready for public viewing courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive is all the information you need. If you haven’t ...

When Ron Hutchinson and fellow early talkie enthusiasts started The Vitaphone Project in 1991, little did they suspect this effort would eventually lead to 150 shorts being made available for public ...

Warner Home Video has launched its extensive salute to the studio’s 90th anniversary with a Blu-ray upgrade for “The Jazz Singer” (1927). The four Warner Brothers — Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack — had ...

CINEMA made a noisy leap forward on Aug. 6, 1926. At the Warner Theater in New York City, Warner Bros. premiered the John Barrymore swashbuckler “Don Juan,” a showcase for Vitaphone, one of the early ...

The early part of the 20th century was a good time for Hollywood. In the 1920s, the studios were riding high with established stars and their own theater chain. The last thing they wanted was to upset ...

*A lot of tall-grass detail here. https://hometownstohollywood.com/editorials/sights-and-sounds-reunited-the-vitaphone-project/ "Although short subject films have ...

Ron Hutchinson, an ebullient film buff who led a campaign to restore scores of largely forgotten short sound films from the 1920s and ’30s that featured comedians, vaudevillians, opera singers and ...

Those attending the 15th annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood next month will have an opportunity to engage with Mel Brooks and Vitaphone, both born in 1926. One’s extinct, the other’s still ...