There are people who love 1920s vaudeville, love the music and the comedy from that period and find Vitaphone shorts - early sound films of the singers and comedians from that era - just as ...

It’s time to once again take your front-row seats to the best variety show of the Jazz Age, as the vaunted and venerable Vitaphone presents a third collection of vintage Vaudeville and more sound ...

The 60 short films that make up Warner Archive’s “Vitaphone Varieties” (1926-30) four-disc set were made when sound was in its infancy. They’re a fascinating time capsule, not only of early talkies ...

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 ...

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When Ron Hutchinson and fellow early talkie enthusiasts started The Vitaphone Project in 1991, little did they suspect this effort would eventually lead to 150 shorts being made available for public ...

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 ...

A Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of make-believe where they sing and tap-dance. Marjorie Kane sings an introductory song. A very young Judy Garland, in one ...

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