List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
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.[1] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including most notably sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone, as well as sound on disc formats like Vitaphone 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.[2]
1926
Title | Release Date | Company | Audio | Archive Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
"Don Juan"[F 1] | August 6, 1926 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Better 'Ole" | October 23, 1926 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"While London Sleeps" | November 27, 1926 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Audio Only |
1927
Title | Release Date | Company | Audio | Archive Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
"The Fortune Hunter" | January 18, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"What Price Glory" [F 2] | January 21, 1927 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"When a Man Loves" | February 3, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Missing Link" | May 22, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"The Black Diamond Express" | June 4, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Old San Francisco" | June 21, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The First Auto" | June 27, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Heart of Maryland" | July 23, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Incomplete |
"Wings" [F 3] | August 12, 1927 | Paramount | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"The Bush Leaguer" | August 20, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"7th Heaven"[F 4] | September 10, 1927 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Sunrise" | September 23, 1927 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"A Sailor"s Sweetheart" | September 24, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Incomplete |
"The Jazz Singer" [F 5] | October 6, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Sailor Izzy Murphy" | October 8, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"A Reno Divorce" | October 22, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Audio Only |
"A Dog of the Regiment" | October 29, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Audio Only
[Discs 1–2, 4-5] |
"Good Time Charley" | November 5, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"The Silver Slave" | November 12, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Girl From Chicago" | November 19, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Ginsberg The Great" | November 26, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Audio Only
[Disc 7 extant] |
"Brass Knuckles" | December 3, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"If I Were Single" | December 17, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Ham and Eggs at the Front" | December 24, 1927 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
1928
Title | Release Date | Company | Audio | Archive Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
"Beware of Married Men" | January 14, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Incomplete |
"Mother Machree" [F 6] | January 22, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Part Talkie (Singing Sequence) | Incomplete |
"A Race For Life" | January 28, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"The Little Snob" | February 11, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Four Sons" [3] | February 13, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Across the Atlantic" | February 25, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Powder My Back" | March 10, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Tenderloin" [F 7] | March 14, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Audio Only
[Disc 1 Extant] |
"Domestic Troubles" | March 28, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Crimson City" | April 7, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"Street Angel" | April 9, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Glorious Betsy" | April 16, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Exists
[Discs 1–4,6-8] |
"Rinty of the Desert" | April 21, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Pay As You Enter" | May 12, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Audio Only |
"Ramona"[F 8] | May 20, 1928 | United Artists | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Five and Ten Cent Annie" | May 28, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"Fazil" | June 4, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Lion and the Mouse" | June 15, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Exists
[Discs 1,3-6,9] |
"The Perfect Crime" [F 9] | June 17, 1928 | FBO | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Lights of New York" [F 10] | July 8, 1928 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Exists |
"Warming Up" | July 15, 1928 | Paramount | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Tempest" [F 11] | July 21, 1928 | United Artists | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Loves of an Actress" | July 29, 1928 | Paramount | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"White Shadows in the South Seas" [F 12] | July 31, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Scarlet Lady" | August 1, 1928 | Columbia | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"Women They Talk About" | August 11, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Patriot" | August 19, 1928 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"Caught In The Fog" | August 25, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"The River Pirate" | August 26, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Two Lovers" [F 13] | August 27, 1928 | United Artists | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists
[Discs 1–4,6,10] |
"Submarine" | August 28, 1928 | Columbia | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"Our Dancing Daughters" | September 1, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Sawdust Paradise" | September 1, 1928 | Paramount | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Gang War" | September 2, 1928 | FBO | Part Talkie | Lost |
"State Street Sadie" | September 2, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Audio Only
[Discs 5-6] |
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"[F 14] | September 2, 1928 | Universal | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Terror" [F 15] | September 6, 1928 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Audio Only |
"Excess Baggage" | September 8, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Audio Only |
"The Night Watch" | September 9, 1928 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"While the City Sleeps" | September 15, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Win That Girl" | September 16, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Waterfront" | September 16, 1928 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Mother Knows Best" [F 16] | September 16, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Singing Fool" | September 19, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Beggars of Life" | September 22, 1928 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Film Only
[Disc 1 extant] |
"Hit of the Show" | September 23, 1928 | FBO | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Plastered In Paris" | September 23, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Show Girl" | September 28, 1928 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The King of Kings"[F 17] | September 30, 1928 | Pathe | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Air Circus" | September 30, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Lonesome" [F 18] | September 30, 1928 | Universal | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Toilers" | October 1, 1928 | Tiffany Pictures | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"4 Devils" [F 19] | October 3, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Audio Only
[Disc 4 extant] |
"The Wedding March" | October 6, 1928 | Paramount | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists
[Discs 1-7] |
"Dry Martini" | October 7, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Circus Kid" | October 7, 1928 | FBO | Part Talkie | Film Only |
"Melody of Love" | October 10, 1928 | Universal | All Talking | Incomplete |
"The Battle of the Sexes" | October 10, 1928 | United Artists | Part Talkie (Singing Sequence) | Exists
[Discs 2–4,8] |
"Captain Swagger" | October 14, 1928 | Pathe | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Women They Talk About" | October 14, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Lilac Time" [F 20] | October 18, 1928 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists
[Discs 1,5-7] |
"Land of the Silver Fox" | October 18, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Exists
[Discs 1–2,4-7] |
"Me, Gangster" | October 20, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Show Folks" | October 21, 1928 | Pathe | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Woman Disputed" | October 21, 1928 | United Artists | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"The Home Towners" | October 23, 1928 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Audio Only
[Discs 3–4,7,10] |
"Varsity" | October 26, 1928 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Beware of Bachelors" | October 27, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Exists
[Discs 1,4-8] |
"The Midnight Taxi" | October 28, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Film Only |
"Noah's Ark" [F 21] | November 1, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Cavalier" | November 1, 1928 | Tiffany Pictures | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Viking" [F 22] | November 2, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Revenge" | November 3, 1928 | United Artists | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Baby Cyclone" | November 3, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Abie's Irish Rose" [F 23] | November 3, 1928 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"The Woman From Moscow" | November 3, 1928 | Paramount | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Incomplete |
"Marked Money" | November 4, 1928 | Pathe | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Haunted House" | November 4, 1928 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Man Who Laughs" [F 24] | November 4, 1928 | Universal | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Interference"[F 25] | November 5, 1928 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Marriage by Contact" | November 9, 1928 | Tiffany Pictures | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Taxi 13" | November 11, 1928 | FBO | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Romance of the Underworld" | November 11, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Outcast" | November 11, 1928 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"On Trial" | November 14, 1928 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Audio Only
[Discs 1–2,4-5,7, 9-10] |
"Alias Jimmy Valentine" [F 26] | November 15, 1928 | MGM | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"The Awakening" | November 17, 1928 | United Artists | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Masks of the Devil" | November 17, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Good-Bye Kiss" | November 18, 1928 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Annapolis" | November 18, 1928 | Pathe | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Prep and Pep" | November 18, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Show People" | November 20, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Wind" | November 23, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Manhattan Cocktail" | November 24, 1928 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"West of Zanzibar" | November 24, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Riley The Cop" | November 25, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"A Lady of Chance" | December 1, 1928 | MGM | Part Talkie (Singing Sequence) | Film Only |
"The River Woman" | December 1, 1928 | Lumas Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"Ned McCobb's Daughter" | December 2, 1928 | Pathe | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Adoration" | December 2, 1928 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Red Dance" | December 2, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"The Little Wild Cat" | December 8, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Give and Take" | December 9, 1928 | Universal | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Blindfold" | December 9, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Barker" | December 9, 1928 | First National | Part Talkie | Exists |
"A Woman of Affairs" | December 15, 1928 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Shady Lady" | December 16, 1928 | Pathe | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Homesick" | December 16, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Blockade" | December 16, 1928 | FBO | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Naughty Baby" | December 16, 1928 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Spieler" | December 20, 1928 | Pathe | Part Talkie | Exists |
"My Man" | December 21, 1928 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Incomplete
[Discs 1-11] |
"Conquest" | December 22, 1928 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Lost |
"Red Wine" | December 23, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Brotherly Love" | December 23, 1928 | MGM | Part Talkie | Exists |
"In Old Arizona" [F 27] | December 25, 1928 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"Sins of the Fathers" | December 29, 1928 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"The Shopworn Angel" | December 29, 1928 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"Scarlet Seas" | December 30, 1928 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
1929
Title | Release Date | Company | Audio | Archive Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
"Sal of Singapore" [F 28] | January 4, 1929 | FBO | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Captain Lash" | January 6, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronzed Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Jazz Age" | January 6, 1929 | FBO | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Last Warning" | January 6, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Silent Version Only |
"Synthetic Sin" | January 9, 1929 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists
[Disc 6 extant] |
"The Rescue" | January 12, 1929 | United Artists | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Incomplete |
"Man, Woman and Wife" | January 13, 1929 | Universal | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" [F 29] | January 16, 1929 | Tobis | Part Talkie (Singing Sequence) | Exists |
"The Flying Fleet" | January 19, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Geraldine" | January 20, 1929 | Pathe | Part Talkie | Lost |
"True Heaven" | January 20, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Lady of the Pavements" | January 22, 1929 | United Artists | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Bellamy Trial" | January 23, 1929 | MGM | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"The Doctor's Secret" | January 26, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Lost |
"Fancy Baggage" | January 26, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Audio Only
[Disc 2] |
"Red Hot Speed" | January 27, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Seven Footprints to Satan" | January 27, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Silent Version Only
[Discs 2,5-6] |
"Fugitives" | January 27, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Noisy Neighbours" | January 27, 1929 | Pathe | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Moulin Rouge" [F 30] | January 30, 1929 | British International Pictures | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Rainbow" | February 1, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Incomplete |
"The Broadway Melody" [F 31] | February 1, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Lucky Boy" | February 2, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Wolf of Wall Street" | February 2, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Incomplete |
"Cheyeene" | February 2, 1929 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Girl on the Barge" | February 3, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Million Dollar Collar" | February 9, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Greyhound Limited" | February 9, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists
[Discs 1–4, 6] |
"The Sin Sister" | February 10, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Weary River" | February 10, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Homecoming"[F 32] | February 16, 1929 | UFA/ Paramount | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Redeeming Sin" | February 16, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Making the Grade" | February 17, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Royal Rider" | February 17, 1929 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Lawless Legion" | February 17, 1929 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Lone Wolf's Daughter" [F 33] | February 18, 1929 | Columbia | Part Talkie | Audio Only
[Disc 3] |
"The Iron Mask" | February 21, 1929 | United Artists | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Redskin" | February 23, 1929 | Paramount | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Stolen Kisses" | February 23, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Wild Orchids" | February 23, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"New Year's Eve" | February 23, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Leatherneck" | February 24, 1929 | Pathe | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Ghost Talks" | February 24, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Sonny Boy" | February 27, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Exists
[Discs 1,3,5] |
"The Canary Murder Case" [F 34] | February 28, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Molly and Me" | March 1, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Clue of the New Pin" [F 35] | March 1, 1929 | British Lion Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"Stark Mad" | March 2, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Lost |
"The Carnation Kid" | March 2, 1929 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Clear the Decks" | March 3, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Children of the Ritz" | March 3, 1929 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Office Scandal" | March 3, 1929 | Pathe | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Strong Boy" | March 3, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost
[Trailer Exists] |
"The Younger Generation" | March 4, 1929 | Columbia | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Speakeasy" | March 8, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Audio Only |
"Desert Nights" | March 9, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Dummy" | March 9, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Square Shoulders" | March 10, 1929 | Pathe | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Shakedown" | March 10, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | International Sound
Version Only |
"Trial Marriage" | March 10, 1929 | Columbia | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Hearts in Dixie" | March 10, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"Why Be Good?" | March 12, 1929 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Looping the Loop" [F 36] | March 16, 1929 | Paramount/ UFA | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Show Boat" | March 16, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Exists |
"One Stolen Night" | March 16, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Audio Only |
"The Duke Steps Out" | March 16, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Audio Only |
"Hawk of the Hills" [F 37] | March 17, 1929 | Pathe | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City" | March 17, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Love in the Desert" [F 38] | March 17, 1929 | FBO | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Blue Skies" | March 17, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Two Sisters" | March 23, 1929 | Rayart Pictures | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Great Power" | March 23, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Lost |
"Queen of the Night Clubs" | March 24, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Incomplete |
"Girls Gone Wild" | March 24, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"It Can Be Done" | March 24, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Syncopation" [F 39] | March 24, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"Love and the Devil" | March 24, 1929 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Crimson Circle" [F 40] | March 25, 1929 | British International Pictures/ Efzet Film | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Bridge of San Luis Ray" | March 30, 1929 | MGM | Part Talkie | Silent Version Only
[Discs 2–3,7,9-10] |
"Wolf Song" | March 30, 1929 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Chinatown Nights" | March 30, 1929 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Hard Boiled Rose" | March 30, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Film Only
[Disc 4] |
"Strange Cargo" | March 31, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Lost |
"The Godless Girl" [F 41] | March 31, 1929 | Pathe | Part Talkie | Silent Version Only |
"Trent's Last Case" | March 31, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"Linda" | March 31, 1929 | Mrs Wallace Reid Productions | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Divine Lady" | March 31, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie (Singing Sequence) | Exists |
"My Lady's Past" | April 1, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | Part Talkie | Lost |
"His Captive Woman" | April 2, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Spite Marriage" | April 6, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Wild Party" | April 6, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Coquette" | April 6, 1929 | United Artists | All Talking | Exists |
"Black Waters" [F 42] | April 6, 1929 | British & Dominions | All Talking | Lost |
"Not Quite Decent" | April 7, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Hot Stuff" | April 7, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Desert Song" | April 8, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Exists |
"The Donovan Affair" | April 11, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Film Only |
"The Voice of the City" | April 13, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Close Harmony" | April 13, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Thru Different Eyes" | April 14, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Silent Version Only |
"The Charlatan" | April 14, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Veiled Woman" | April 14, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Saturday's Children" | April 14, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Voice Within" | April 15, 1929 | Tiffany | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Frozen River" | April 20, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"One Stolen Night" | April 20, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Nothing But the Truth" | April 20, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Alibi" | April 20, 1929 | United Artists | All Talking | Exists |
"The Woman From Hell" | April 21, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Tide of Empire" | April 23, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Love and the Devil" | April 24, 1929 | First National | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Pagan" | April 27, 1929 | MGM | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Broadway" [F 43] | April 27, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Exists |
"Kid Gloves" | April 27, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Hole in the Wall" | April 27, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"From Headquarters" | April 27, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Far Call" | April 28, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Betrayal" | April 28, 1929 | Paramount | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"House of Horror" | April 28, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Return of the Rat" | May 1, 1929 | Gainsborough Pictures | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Film Only |
"Bulldog Drummond" | May 2, 1929 | United Artists | All Talking | Exists |
"Glad Rag Doll" | May 4, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Where East is East" | May 4, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Gentlemen of the Press" | May 4, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Protection" | May 5, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Mother's Boy" | May 5, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Exists |
"Venus" | May 6, 1929 | United Artists | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Audio Only |
"The Black Watch" | May 8, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"The Squall" | May 9, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Exists |
"Eternal Love" | May 11, 1929 | United Artists | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"No Defence" | May 11, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Joy Street" | May 12, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Two Weeks Off" | May 12, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Audio Only |
"Father and Son" | May 13, 1929 | Columbia | Part Talkie | Lost |
"A Dangerous Woman" | May 18, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"The Rainbow Man" | May 18, 1929 | Sono Art World Wide Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"Prisoners" | May 19, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Valiant" | May 19, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"The Bachelor Girl" | May 20, 1929 | Columbia | Part Talkie | Lost |
"A Man's Man" | May 25, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Border Romance" | May 25, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"The Man I Love" | May 25, 1929 | Paramount | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Love at First Sight" | May 26, 1929 | Chesterfield Pictures | All Talking | Lost |
"The House of Secrets" | May 26, 1929 | Chesterfield Pictures | All Talking | Audio Only
[Discs 1,3,5-7] |
"Fox Movietone Follies of 1929" | May 26, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Audio Only
[Discs 6-7] |
"On With The Show" [F 44] | May 28, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Exists |
"The Three Passions" [F 45] | June 1, 1929 | United Artists | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists
[Discs 2-3] |
"The Studio Murder Mystery" | June 1, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Piccadilly" [F 46] | June 1, 1929 | British International Pictures | Part Talkie (Prologue only) | Exists |
"New Orleans" | June 2, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | All Talking | Lost |
"His Lucky Day" | June 2, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Careers" | June 2, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The One Woman Idea" | June 2, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"The Flying Marine" | June 5, 1929 | Columbia | Part Talkie | Exists |
"She Goes to War" | June 8, 1929 | United Artists | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"The Trial of Mary Dugan" | June 8, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"The Exalted Flapper" | June 9, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Two Men and a Maid" | June 10, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Kitty" [F 47] | June 10, 1929 | British International Pictures | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Four Feathers" | June 12, 1929 | Paramount | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Idle Rich" | June 15, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"The Wheel of Life" | June 15, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Thunderbolt" | June 20, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"The Hollywood Revue of 1929" | June 20, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"The Flying Fool" | June 21, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Exists |
"This Is Heaven" | June 22, 1929 | United Artists | Part Talkie | Audio Only
[Discs 2-9] |
"Masked Emotions" | June 23, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Girl in the Glass Cage" | June 23, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Fall of Eve" | June 25, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Exists |
"The Gamblers" | June 29, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Audio Only |
"High Voltage" | June 29, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Exists |
"Fashions in Love" | June 29, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"River of Romance" | June 29, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Come Across" | June 30, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Broadway Babies" | June 30, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Exists |
"Behind That Curtain" | June 30, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"Taxi For Two" | July 1, 1929 | Gainsborough Pictures | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Divorce Made Easy" | July 6, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Pals of the Prairie" | July 7, 1929 | FBO | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"The Man and the Moment" | July 7, 1929 | First National | Part Talkie | Exists |
"College Love" | July 7, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Lost |
"Black Magic" | July 7, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Pleasure Crazed" | July 7, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Thunder" | July 8, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Incomplete |
"The Time, the Place and the Girl" | July 8, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Audio Only |
"Wonder of Women" | July 13, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Audio Only |
"Dangerous Curves" | July 13, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Masquerade" | July 14, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Twin Beds" | July 14, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"City of Play" | July 15, 1929 | Gainsborough Pictures | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Wrecker" | July 17, 1929 | Gainsborough Pictures | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Modern Love" | July 21, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Melody Lane" | July 21, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Incomplete
[Discs 1,3,5-8] |
"Drag" | July 21, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Exists |
"Madonna of Avenue A" | July 22, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Lost |
"The Last of Ms Cheyney" | July 26, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Evangeline" | July 27, 1929 | United Artists | Part Talkie | Exists
[Discs 1–2,4-9] |
"Blackmail" [F 48] | July 28, 1929 | British International Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"Port of Dreams" | July 28, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Smiling Irish Eyes" | July 28, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Audio Only |
"The Trail of '98" [F 49] | July 29, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Midstream" | July 29, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Light Fingers" | July 29, 1929 | Columbia | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Single Standard" | July 29, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Street Girl" | July 30, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"Midnight Daddies" | August 3, 1929 | Tiffany | All Talking | Lost |
"Hungarian Rhapsody"[F 50] | August 3, 1929 | Paramount/ UFA | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Incomplete |
"Paris Bound" | August 3, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Exists |
"The Cocoanuts" | August 3, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Chasing Through Europe" | August 4, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Love Trap" | August 4, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Hard To Get" | August 4, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"The College Coquette" | August 5, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Lost |
"Say It With Songs" | August 6, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Exists |
"The Awful Truth" | August 10, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Lost |
"Half Marriage" | August 10, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu" | August 10, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Dark Streets" | August 11, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Audio Only |
"The Dance of Life" | August 16, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Charming Sinners" | August 17, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Lucky in Love" | August 17, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Lost |
"Madame X" | August 17, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Lucky Star" | August 18, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Silent Version Only |
"Words and Music" | August 18, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"The Careless Age" | August 18, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"Halleluiah" | August 20, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Marianne" [F 51] | August 24, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"The Very Idea" | August 24, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"The Soul of France" [F 52] | August 24, 1929 | Paramount/
Les Établissements Jacques Haïk |
Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Our Modern Maidens" | August 24, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"The Sophomore" | August 24, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Silent Version Only
[Discs extant] |
"Why Leave Home?" | August 25, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Her Private Life" | August 25, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Film Only |
"Gold Diggers of Broadway" [F 53] | August 30, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Incomplete |
"The Greene Murder Case" | August 31, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"The Girl in the Show" | August 31, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Auld Lang Syne" | September 1, 1929 | Welsh-Pearson | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Drake Case" | September 1, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Lost |
"Fast Life" | September 1, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"Salute" | September 1, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"The End of the Simpletons" [F 54] | September 2, 1929 | Syncrocinex | All Talking | Exists |
"Under the Greenwood Tree" | September 5, 1929 | British International Pictures | All Talking | Lost |
"Whispering Winds" | September 5, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Big News" | September 7, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Exists |
"Speedway" | September 7, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Big Time" | September 7, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"Fast Company" | September 7, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Incomplete |
"The Letter" | September 7, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"The Wagon Master" | September 8, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Side Street" | September 8, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"High Treason" | September 9, 1929 | Gaumont-British | All Talking | Exists |
"The Great Gabbo" | September 12, 1929 | Sono Art World Wide Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"Flight" | September 13, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Exists |
"The Unholy Night" | September 14, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Hearts in Exile" | September 14, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Lost |
"A Sailor"s Holiday" | September 14, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Silent Version Only
[Discs 1-6] |
"Rio Rita" | September 15, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"Hold Onto Your Man" | September 15, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Exists |
"The Great Divide" | September 15, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Exists |
"Three Live Ghosts" | September 15, 1929 | United Artists | All Talking | Exists |
"The American Prisoner" | September 16, 1929 | British International Pictures | All Talking | Lost |
"Happy Days" [F 55] | September 17, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"They Had To See Paris" | September 18, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"Honky Tonk" | September 21, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Audio Only |
"Wise Girls" | September 21, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Illusion" | September 21, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Wise Girls" | September 21, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"The Lady Lies" | September 21, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Barnum Was Right" | September 22, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Silent Version Only |
"The Delightful Rogue" | September 22, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"The Girl From Havana" | September 22, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"A Most Immoral Lady" | September 22, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"Jealousy" | September 28, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Lost |
"The Hottenot" | September 28, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Audio Only |
"His Glorious Night" | September 28, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Woman Trap" | September 28, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Her Private Affair" | September 28, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Exists |
"Tonight at Twelve" | September 29, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Big Time" | September 29, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"The Isle of Lost Ships" | September 29, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Silent Version Only |
"Hurricane" | September 30, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Exists |
"The Plaything" | September 30, 1929 | British International Pictures | Part Talkie | Lost |
"Land Without Women" [4] | September 30, 1929 | Tobis | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Broken Melody" | October 1, 1929 | Welsh-Pearson | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"White Cargo" [F 56] | October 1, 1929 | Neo-Art Productions | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Devil's Maze" | October 1, 1929 | Gainsborough Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"Dark Red Roses" | October 1, 1929 | British Talking Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"Sunny Side Up" | October 3, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"Why Bring That Up?" | October 4, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"The Argyle Case" | October 5, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Lost |
"The Love Doctor" | October 5, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists
[Discs 1,3,5-6] |
"Evidence" | October 5, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Lost |
"The Trespasser" | October 5, 1929 | United Artists | All Talking | Exists |
"The Mysterious Island" | October 5, 1929 | MGM | Part Talkie | Exists |
"One Hysterical Night" | October 6, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Exists |
"The River" [F 57] | October 6, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Incomplete |
"Applause" | October 7, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Frozen Justice" | October 13, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Incomplete |
"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" | October 13, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Film Only |
"The Last Performance" | October 13, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Silent Version Only |
"Artificial Svensson"[5] | October 14, 1929 | AB Swedish Film Industry | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Mister Antonio" | October 15, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"In Old California" | October 15, 1929 | Argosy Film Co. | All Talking | Exists
[Discs 1,3,5] |
"So Long Letty" | October 16, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Exists |
"Sea Fury" | October 16, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Lost |
"The Informer" | October 17, 1929 | British International Pictures | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Welcome Danger" | October 19, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"The Thirteenth Chair" | October 19, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Oh Yeah" | October 19, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Exists |
"Is Everybody Happy?" | October 19, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Incomplete |
"Young Nowheres" | October 20, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"The Phantom in the House" | October 20, 1929 | Continental Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"The Cock Eyed World" | October 20, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Exists |
"The Queen's Necklace" [6] | October 22, 1929 | Aubert Franco Film | Part Talkie | Lost |
"In The Headlines" | October 26, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Lost |
"The Saturday Night Kid" | October 26, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Night Parade" | October 27, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"The Long Long Trail" | October 27, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Exists |
"Married in Hollywood" | October 27, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Incomplete |
"The Girl from Woolworths" | October 27, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Audio Only |
"Atlantic" [F 58] | October 28, 1929 | Sud Film/ British International Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"Jazz Heaven" | October 30, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"Alf's Carpet" | November 1, 1929 | British International Pictures | Part Talkie | Exists |
"The Three Masks" [F 59] | November 1, 1929 | Pathe-Natan | All Talking | Exists |
"Woman to Woman" | November 1, 1929 | Gainsborough Pictures/ Tiffany | All Talking | Exists |
"To What Red Hell" | November 1, 1929 | Julius Hagen Productions | All Talking | Exists |
"Disraeli" | November 1, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Exists |
"Sweetie" | November 2, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Skin Deep" | November 2, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Lost |
"The Mississippi Gambler" | November 3, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Exists |
"Love, Live and Laugh" | November 3, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Condemned" | November 3, 1929 | United Artists | All Talking | Exists |
"Two O'Clock in the Morning" | November 6, 1929 | Bell Pictures Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Paris" [F 60] | November 7, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Audio Only |
"Footlights and Fools" | November 8, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Audio Only |
"So This Is College" | November 8, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"The Racketeer" | November 9, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Exists |
"The Sap" | November 9, 1929 | Warner Bros. | Part Talkie | Lost |
"The Virginian" | November 9, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"A Song of Kentucky" | November 10, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Senor Americano" | November 10, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Silent Version Only |
"Broadway Scandals" | November 10, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Exists |
"Tanned Legs" | November 10, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"The Forward Pass" | November 10, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"Romance of the Rio Grande" | November 11, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Song of Love" | November 13, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Exists |
"Those Who Love" | November 15, 1929 | British International Pictures | All Talking | Lost |
"Acquitted" | November 15, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Exists |
"The Feather" [F 61] | November 15, 1929 | Julius Hagen Productions | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Lost |
"Atlantic" [F 62] | November 15, 1929 | British International Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"The Mighty" | November 16, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"The Locked Door" | November 16, 1929 | United Artists | All Talking | Exists |
"The Kiss" [F 63] | November 16, 1929 | MGM | Synchronized Score and Sound Effects | Exists |
"Skinner Steps Out" | November 17, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Exists |
"Little Johnny Jones" | November 17, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"Shanghai Lady" | November 17, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Lost |
"The Love Parade" | November 19, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Painted Faces" | November 20, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"The Show of Shows" | November 21, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Exists |
"Untamed" | November 23, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Darkened Rooms" | November 23, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Red Hot Rhythm" | November 23, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Lost |
"The Devil"s Pit" | November 24, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Lost |
"The Sacred Flame" | November 24, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Lost |
"Nix on Dames" | November 24, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"The Vagabond Lover" | November 26, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"The Battle of Paris" | November 30, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"It's You I Have Loved" | November 30, 1929 | Aafa Film | All Talking | Lost |
"The Taming of the Shrew" | November 30, 1929 | United Artists | All Talking | Exists |
"Auld Lang Syne" | December 1, 1929 | Paramount British Pictures | All Talking | Lost |
"The Hate Ship" | December 1, 1929 | British International Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"The Talk of Hollywood" | December 1, 1929 | Sono Art World Wide Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"Wall Street" | December 1, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Lost |
"Seven Faces" | December 1, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"The Painted Angel" | December 1, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"General Crack" | December 3, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Silent Version Only
[Discs 1-11] |
"It's a Great Life" | December 6, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Rich People" | December 7, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Exists |
"Glorifying the American Girl" | December 7, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"The Shannons of Broadway" | December 8, 1929 | Universal | All Talking | Lost |
"South Sea Rose" | December 8, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"The Love Racket" | December 8, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"Dark Skies" | December 10, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Lost |
"This Thing Called Love" | December 13, 1929 | Pathe | All Talking | Lost |
"Dynamite" | December 13, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Half Way to Heaven" | December 14, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"The Aviator" | December 14, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Lost |
"Christina" | December 15, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | Part Talkie | Audio Only
[Disc 2] |
"After the Fog" | December 15, 1929 | Beacon Productions | All Talking | Lost |
"The Broadway Hoofer" | December 15, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Exists
[Discs 5,7] |
"Dance Hall" | December 15, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Exists |
"Melody of the Heart" | December 16, 1929 | UFA | All Talking | Exists |
"Navy Blues" | December 20, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"The Lost Zeppelin" | December 20, 1929 | Tiffany Pictures | All Talking | Exists |
"The Marriage Playground" | December 21, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Pointed Heels" | December 21, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Tiger Rose" | December 21, 1929 | Warner Bros. | All Talking | Exists |
"Courtin' Wildcats" | December 22, 1929 | Universal | Part Talkie | Exists |
"Hot For Paris" | December 22, 1929 | Fox Film Corporation | All Talking | Lost |
"Splinters" [7] | December 23, 1929 | British and Dominions Films | All Talking | Exists |
"Sally" | December 23, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Exists |
"Hit the Deck" | December 25, 1929 | RKO | All Talking | Audio Only |
"Seven Keys to Baldplate" | December 25, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"Mexicali Rose" | December 26, 1929 | Columbia | All Talking | Exists |
"The Dream Waltz"[8] | December 26, 1929 | Minevra Film | Part Talkie | Film Only |
"The Co-Optimists" | December 27, 1929 | Gordon Craig Productions | All Talking | Lost |
"Their Own Desire" | December 27, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"Devil May Care" | December 27, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
"The Laughing Lady" | December 28, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"New York Nights" | December 28, 1929 | United Artists | All Talking | Exists |
"Seven Days Leave" | December 28, 1929 | Paramount | All Talking | Exists |
"The Royal Box" [F 64] | December 29, 1929 | Warner Bros./
National-Filmverleih GmbH |
All Talking | Lost |
"Wedding Rings" | December 29, 1929 | First National | All Talking | Lost |
"Blaze o' Glory" | December 30, 1929 | Sono Art World Wide Pictures | All Talking | Audio Only |
"The Bishop Murder Case" | December 31, 1929 | MGM | All Talking | Exists |
Links
- The Vitaphone Project
- Silent Era.com: list of early Sound Films
- Film Sound History: Online Articles
- List of Sound Features 1926-1935: www.vitaphone.org/features.html
- List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features
- Technicolor History
- Vitaphone Soundtrack Collection
- Warner Archive
- Vitaphone
- Movietone
- RCA Photophone
- Sound Film
References
- Eyman, Scott (1999). The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6192-6.
- "www.vitaphoneproject.com/". Vitaphone Project.
- "www.silentera.com/PSFL/indexes/index.html". Silent Era: Progressive Film List. 2018.
- "The Emergence of German Sound Film". filmportal.de.
- Alanen, Anitti (October 10, 2013). "Konstgjorda Svensson / [Artificial Svensson] (2011 SFI restoration)". Anitti Alanan: Film Diary.
- O'Brien, Charles (2005). Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S. Indiana: Indiana, University Press.
- Hutchinson, Pamela (September 21, 2015). "C'mon Feel the Noise: What Happened When the Talkies Came to Britain?". The Guardian.
- Gustafsson, Frederik (2017). The Man from the Third Row. New York: Berghahn Books. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-1-78533-250-0.
Footnotes
- The first feature film to be released with a Vitaphone score and sound effects track.
- Silent version released on November 23, 1926.
- The music and sound effects track were recorded with General Electric Kinegraphone (later known as RCA Photophone) for limited release at a dozen theaters.
- Silent version released on May 6, 1927.
- The first feature film to feature dialogue/ singing sequences.
- The first feature film to include a scene filmed in Movietone.
- The first sound film with scripted dialogue scenes.
- Silent version released on March 6, 1928.
- FBO became the second studio to release a part talkie.
- The first 'all talking' feature film.
- Silent version released on May 17, 1928.
- Leo the Lion roars for the first time in sound, in MGM's first sound film.
- Silent version released on March 23, 1928.
- Silent version released on November 4, 1927.
- Instead of opening titles, the credits are spoken by a caped and masked Conrad Nagel.
- The first part talkie to include multiple scenes filmed in Movietone.
- Silent version released on April 19, 1927.
- Silent version released on June 20, 1928.
- Soon after release, the film was pulled from distribution and the final two reels were refilmed in sound without Murnau's input. It was re-released on June 15, 1929.
- Silent version released on August 3, 1928.
- Soon after release, Warner Bros pulled it from release and re-edited some of the talking sequences.
- The first feature film shot in Technicolor to include a soundtrack.
- The film was originally released as a silent on April 19, 1928. It was then pulled from release and dialogue scenes were added.
- Silent version released on April 27, 1928.
- Originally filmed a silent; it was completely remade in sound with the direction by Roy Pomeroy
- A four reel condensed version was located in Italy.
- First all talking feature with outdoor location filming.
- Silent version released on November 4, 1928.
- The first sound film produced in Europe to be released.
- Silent version released on March 22, 1928.
- The first feature film to include a Technicolor insert filmed in sound.
- Silent version released on the August 29, 1928.
- Columbia was the last of the Hollywood majors to release a part talkie.
- Louise Brooks was dubbed and doubled by Margaret Livingston when the film was reworked for sound.
- The first sound feature film shot in the UK.
- Silent version released on September 15, 1928.
- Edited re-release, originally released as a serial in 1927.
- Silent version released on January 27, 1929.
- First all talking feature film filmed in RCA Photophone.
- Some sequences were dubbed, using the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process
- Silent version released in August 1928.
- The first 'all talking' British feature, although it was filmed in the US.
- A specially designed camera crane was used for some scenes.
- First all talking feature shot entirely in Technicolor.
- Silent version released on December 12, 1928.
- Silent version released in February 1929; reissued in the US with a sound prologue.
- The second half of the film was shot in sound at RKO Studios in Hollywood, due to the lack of suitable facilities in the UK at the time.
- The first all talking feature film shot in the UK to be released.
- Silent version released on March 20, 1928.
- Silent version released on November 5, 1928.
- A silent version was produced first, before the film was remade in sound.
- Silent version released on April 26, 1928.
- Several Technicolor fragments exist in various archives.
- The first 'all talking' film produced and released in Brazil.
- The first feature film to be shot in Widescreen, in the Fox Grandeur 70mm film process.
- Silent version released in May 1929.
- Silent version released on December 22, 1928.
- The first 'all talking' German language film.
- The first 'all talking' French language film.
- Fragments of footage were found in the BFI national archive.
- This film was produced in the UK by Julius Hagen Productions and distributed by United Artists.
- Also made in German, French and silent versions. This was also the first all talking German language film to be released.
- The last silent feature to be released by a 'major' Hollywood studio.
- The first foreign-language talkie to be made in the U.S.