This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part talking/ all talking feature films made in the US and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926-1929. During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including most notably sound on film formats such as Movietone and

RCA Photophone RCA Photophone was the trade name given to one of four major competing technologies that emerged in the American film industry in the late 1920s for synchronizing electrically recorded audio to a motion picture image. RCA Photophone was an opt ...

, as well as sound on disc formats like

Vitaphone Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one th ...

for instance. This list includes film titles, release dates, production companies, audio type and its current archive status; denoting whether it exists, lost, incomplete, the film or audio elements exist only, as well as the number of discs extant for films recorded with Vitaphone soundtracks.

1926

1927

1928

1929

Links

The Vitaphone ProjectFilm Sound History: Online Articles
www.vitaphone.org/features.html # List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features
Technicolor History
# Vitaphone Soundtrack Collection
Warner Archive
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# Movietone #

Sound Film A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...

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