The Vitaphone Corporation Movies

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

An animator is in the process of creating a series of three drawings of prominent historical figures. As the animator goes about his drawings, a...

Phil Emerton and his band play tunes and accompany guest performers, including singer-dancer Hannah Williams, the singing Three X Sisters, and...

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and...

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and...

In the kingdom of Florestan, a weak Prince Henry is ousted from power by his calculating cousin, Prince Basil. While exiled in Paris, Henry learns...

The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americans always working for freedom.

Joe Penner, in this Vitaphone short (Vitaphon production number 1124)features his stock speech impediment acts sprinkled with some left-over...

Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

An expectant father rooster fetches doctor stork, who comes out with a basket full of white chicks and one little black one, who gets crowded out of...

Mal Hallett and his Orchestra perform three songs with featured dancers

In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.

In this parody of Grand Hotel, despite a dying man's efforts to enjoy his final days, a jewel thief trying to comfort a great dancer, and a big...

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...

It's Sunday, and as usual a wife is nagging her husband, this time about the whereabouts of the Sunday newspaper which she's sure he's hiding from...

On a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other...

In this musical short, three individuals try to entice a reclusive uncle to join the festivities during Mardi Gras.

In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.

A man in the mythical Elyria tries to kill himself but a cop stops him from doing so. In Elyria, one needs a permit to commit suicide, so off the man...