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August 6 – In New York City, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore. August 18 – A weather map is televised for the first time, sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington, D.C.
The following is an overview of 1926 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths. Top-grossing films (U.S.) [ edit ]
Title Director Featured Cast Genre Note Bachelor Brides: William K. Howard: Rod La Rocque, Eulalie Jensen: Romantic comedy: PDC [1]: Bad Man's Bluff: Alan James: Jay Wilsey, Molly Malone
1926 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, an iconic image of the Great Depression in the United States. 1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen, reaching a nadir in early 1933.
An American Tragedy (1931) is an American pre-Code drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.It is based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy and its 1926 stage adaptation, which were inspired by the historic 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake in upstate New York. [1]
Within Our Gates was produced when early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century. [4] [5] [6] Often regarded in the context of D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915), Micheaux's project has been considered by critics as a response. [7]
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