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The History of American Cinema: 1926

January - June

Paramount release Robert J. Flaherty’s Moana, which was shot in the South Seas using panchromatic film. [ADD]

Film distributors and exhibitors in Hollywood draw up a contract intended to provide standards of business in the industry. [ADD]

Mare Nostrum, directed by Rex Ingram for MGM at the Victorine Studios in Nice is released following location shooting in Italy, France, Spain and Monaco.   Michael Powell works on the film as an apprentice. [ADD]

The release of Douglas Fairbanks’ The Black Pirate makes it the first full-length feature film to be distributed in two-tone Technicolor. [ADD]

Joan Crawford makes an early appearance in Harry Langdon’s full-length comedy, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.   Frank Capra is one of the film’s seven uncredited writers. [ADD]

Exquisite Sinner, disowned by its original director Josef von Sternberg in protest at MGM’s methods, is released.   Filming was completed by Phil Rosen while Sternberg went to work on A Woman of the Sea for Charles Chaplin Productions. [ADD]

President Calvin Coolidge declares himself opposed to a federal institution for film censorship, believing ‘the producers themselves have undertaken to reform their industry,’ by creating the MMPDA. [ADD]

Warner Brothers form the Vitaphone Corporation in partnership with Electrical Research Products Inc. to continue researching sound on film with Western Electric. [ADD]

Filming of Josef von Sternberg’s A Woman of the Sea is completed.   However, the film is never officially released, and the negative is destroyed in 1933 on the suggestion of its producer, Charles Chaplin. [ADD]