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  Will H. Hays.
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Hon. Will H. Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc., Who Will Address You
(1926) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 4 minutes
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Will H. Hays [himself].

The Vitaphone Corporation production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Cinematography by [?] Ed H. DuPar? / Premiered 6 August 1926 at the Warners’ Theatre in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The production was shot at the Manhattan Opera House in New York, New York. Vitaphone production number 0192. Opening short subject in the Vitaphone program which featured Don Juan (1926). / Full-sound film.

Speech.

Synopsis: Hays introduces the Vitaphone sound system.

Survival status: Print exists [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Early sound film - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 10 February 2018.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Geduld-Birth p. 123; Maltin-Selected p. 22; Shipman-Cinema p. 90.

Home video: DVD.

 
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