''Introduction of Vitaphone Sound Pictures'' is a 1926

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 Pictures, First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone is the last major analog sound-on-disc sys ...

short film released by

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on August 6, 1926. It was one of the first talking films. It utilized the

sound-on-disc sound system.

Premise

Will H. Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, introduces the audience to the Vitaphone sound system and muses on the possibilities of the technological advancement. This short played with a grouping of other shorts at the world premiere of ''

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'', the first feature film to employ Vitaphone. In the short film, Hays states:

It has been said that the art of vocalists and instrumentalists is ephemeral, that he creates but for the moment. Now neither the artist nor his art will ever wholly die.

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* * {{1920s-US-film-stub 1926 films American black-and-white films American short films Warner Bros. films Warner Bros. short films