1926 in film

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.)

The top ten 1926 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1926
RankTitleDistributorDomestic rentals
1 What Price Glory? Fox Film $2,000,000[1]
2 The Black Pirate United Artists $1,700,000[2]
3 Beau Geste Paramount $1,500,000[1]
4 The Volga Boatman Producers Distributing Corporation $1,275,375[3]
5 Don Juan Warner Bros. $1,258,000[4]
6 Tell It to the Marines MGM $1,250,000[5]
7 Sparrows United Artists $966,878[6]
8 The Better 'Ole Warner Bros. $955,000[4]
9 The Son of the Sheik United Artists $820,000[7]
10 The Sea Beast Warner Bros. $814,000[4]

Events

  • February – The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in Weimar Germany, directed by Lotte Reiniger. It is called The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed).
  • August 5 – Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system uses multiple 33+1⁄3 rpm gramophone records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back music and sound effects synchronized with film.
  • August 23 – Rudolph Valentino, whose film The Son of the Sheik is currently playing, dies at the age of 31 in New York. Riots occur at the funeral parlor as thousands of people try to see his body.
  • September 27 to October 3 – International Film Congress (Congrès International du Cinématographe) held in Paris, where producers, distributors, and critics discuss the post-World War global film market.[8][9]
  • October 7 – Warner Brothers release the second Vitaphone film, The Better 'Ole, starring Sydney Chaplin.
  • December 5 – The 1925 Soviet film Battleship Potemkin premieres in the United States, at the Biltmore Theatre in Manhattan.[10]
  • Theodore W. Case and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation. The Fox-Case Corp. is formed in an effort to exploit the system, which is given the name Movietone. Fox begin to create Movietone News newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels is of Charles Lindbergh's takeoff for Paris.
  • Al Jolson films A Plantation Act, one of the first unreleased talkies and a test film for The Jazz Singer
  • Ang Tatlong Hambog (The Three Humbugs), the first Filipino film to feature a kissing (make out) scene, is released in the Philippines.

Notable films released in 1926

For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1926

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Comedy film series

Animated short film series

  • Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
  • Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
  • Alice Comedies
    • Alice on the Farm
    • Alice's Balloon Race
    • Alice's Orphan
    • Alice's Little Parade
    • Alice's Mysterious Mystery
    • Alice Charms the Fish
    • Alice's Monkey Business
    • Alice in the Wooly West
    • Alice the Fire Fighter
    • Alice Cuts the Ice
    • Alice Helps the Romance
    • Alice's Spanish Guitar
    • Alice's Brown Derby
    • Alice the Lumber Jack
  • Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
  • Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
  • Un-Natural History (1925–1927)
  • Pete the Pup (1926–1927)

Births

Deaths

Film debuts

References

  1. 1 2 "The All Time Best Sellers". International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38. Quigley Publishing Company. p. 942. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ Krämer, Peter (2019). The General. ISBN 978-1-8387-1889-3. In addition, the strongly comedy-inflected, spectacular adventure films starring Fairbanks, who was known for his onscreen acrobatics (as well as his infectious smile), ranked highly in the annual charts – The Thief of Bagdad at no. 3 in 1924, Don Q, Son of Zorro at no. 4 in 1925 and The Black Pirate at no. 4 in 1926 – with domestic rentals of between $1.5 million and $1.7 million.
  3. ↑ Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-8131-2636-4.
  4. 1 2 3 Glancy, H Mark (1995). "Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 15.
  5. ↑ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study
  6. ↑ Eyman, Scott (1990). Mary Pickford, America's Sweetheart. ISBN 1-55611-147-9. As one of Mary's most unexpected films and her only Gothic melodrama. Sparrows might have proved too strong for audiences; although it did well, it did somewhat less so than Little Annie Booneij. Produced at a cost of $463,455, its domestic gross was $966,878. Factoring in distribution and advertising costs, Mary realized a clear profit of nearly $200,000 without even considering the money derived from the film's foreign release.
  7. ↑ Movie Box Office Grosses: 1925 through 1931
  8. ↑ Seabury, William Marston (1929) Motion Picture Problems: The Cinema and the League of Nations pp147–161
  9. ↑ 1926 The First Initiative International Federation of Film Critics
  10. ↑ Leyda, Jay (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 205.
  11. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  12. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 302. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  13. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 303. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  14. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  15. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 307. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  16. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  17. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  18. ↑ Kehr, Dave (20 August 2017). "Jerry Lewis, a Jester Both Silly and Stormy, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  19. ↑ "Marilyn Monroe | Biography, Movies, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  20. ↑ Charles Avery;IMDb.com
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