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 ...

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 ...

United by their passion for old films and vintage music, Hutchinson and four like-minded friends created the Vitaphone Project in 1991 with an ambitious mission. They set out to preserve the one-reel ...

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

All surviving negative and positive materials for “Hello Pop” — a Three Stooges short in early two-color Technicolor that MGM released in September, 1933 — were believed destroyed in a 1967 vault fire ...

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 ...