  this page is a subpage of the list of years in film page. this is a list of films that were released in 1926.   ==events== *august - warner brothers debuts the first vitaphone film, don juan. the vitaphone system used multiple 33â rpm disc records developed by bell telephone laboratories and western electric to play back audio synchronized with film. *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. was formed in an effort to exploit the system, which was given the name movietone. fox began to create movietone news newsreels at this time. one of the first newsreels was 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 *the oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the weimar republic, directed by lotte reiniger. it is called the adventures of prince achmed. ==top grossing films== {| class="wikitable" ! rank || title || gross |- | 1. |aloma of the south seas |$3,000,000 |- | 2. |what price glory? |$700,000 |- | 3. |the great k & a train robbery | |- | 4. |beau geste | |- | 5. |flesh and the devil |$1,261,00 |- | 6. |sparrows | |- | 7. |for heaven's sake | |- | 8. |my yankee senor | |- | 9. |don juan | |- | 10. |the sea beast | |- | 11. |la bohÃ¨me | |- | 12. |the temptress | |- | 13. |torrent | |} ==notable films released in 1926== u.s.a. unless stated *3 bad men, directed by john ford *the adventures of prince achmed, directed by lotte reiniger - (germany) *aloma of the south seas, directed by [[maurice tour
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