page_title: Don Juan (1926 film)
section_title: Premiere
hierarchical_section_title: Don Juan (1926 film) / Premiere
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (find matches) Title: Bell telephone magazine Year: 1922 (1920s) Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept Subjects: Telephone Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.) Contributing Library: Prelinger Library Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: sary equipment. Meanwhile, Wente anci A. L.Thuras, who had been working on anew type of loud-speaker, were able to complete its development in time for the Don Juan premiere. The new speaker had a practically uniform response from two octaves below middle C of the piano to about one-half octave above the highest note. It was from 50 to 100 times as efficient as the loud-speakers previously available. This contribution by Bell System engineers, one of whom had worked almost 12 years on the basic elements comprising sound pictures, helped in-sure the success of that great first night whose anniversary is now being observed: that first night whose history has been recounted here. Climax and Beginning Don JUAN was the climax of the Bell Systems part in the development of sound motion pictures; but it was only the beginning of the art and the industry which have grown from it and in which Bell Laboratories and Western Electric have continued to play an important part. Much has happened since: the op- Text Appearing After Image: Western Electric equipment was installed in the old Manhattan Opera House to record the sound for the Vitaphone premiere — notably the scoring of Don Juan. This photograph shows a lull between takes of an operatic short in which Anna Case sang and the Cansinos danced lOO Bell Telephone Magazine ^ JohnBarrymorei Don Juan y.»»y«/ W««R mATRE. Bway,, 52-.St r a 6«yanmHart.ne«i-AnnaCas«EfremXimbalist-fUroMBauef Melfopolitan Opera, Co. Ctiorus ;IY,MturmomcO«iiestraoflO/«e» Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Don Juan is a 1926 American romantic adventure film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, though it has no spoken dialogue. The film is inspired by Lord Byron's 1821 epic poem of the same name. The screenplay was written by Bess Meredyth with intertitles by Maude Fulton and Walter Anthony.
  Don Juan stars John Barrymore as the hand-kissing womanizer. The film has the most kisses in film history, with Barrymore kissing Mary Astor and Estelle Taylor 127 times.
context_section_description: Don Juan premiered August 5, 1926, at the Warners' Theatre in New York City preceded by a program of other shorts demonstrating Vitaphone.
caption: Between takes during filming of "La Fiesta"
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