Editing Vitaphone (section)

==Vitaphone shorts==

[[File:Introductory Speech By Will H. Hays (1926).webm|thumb|Introduction to the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system by Will H. Hays (August 6, 1926)]]

Warners bought the [[Vitagraph]] studio in 1925 and used its [[Brooklyn, New York]], facility for working out practical sound-film production techniques and filming musical shorts. The previously nameless Western Electric sound-on-disc system was named Vitaphone, deriving from the Warner-owned Vitagraph name. 

Although Warners' sound feature films were made in Hollywood, most of the short subjects were made in New York, and Vitaphone shorts became a fixture in movie-theater programs through 1940. Many major names in show business filmed their acts for posterity, and many stars of the future made their screen debuts for Vitaphone. Performers in early Vitaphone shorts filmed at the Flatbush studios include [[Al Jolson]], [[Humphrey Bogart]], [[Jimmy Stewart]], [[Bob Hope]], [[Adelaide Hall]], [[Spencer Tracy]], [[Jack Benny]], [[Sammy Davis Jr.]], [[Sylvia Sidney]], [[Pat O'Brien (actor)|Pat O'Brien]], [[Ruth Etting]], [[Mischa Elman]], [[Frances Langford]], [[Betty Hutton]], [[Burns and Allen]], [[Giovanni Martinelli]], [[Xavier Cugat]], [[Bill Robinson]], [[Lillian Roth]], [[Joan Blondell]], [[Judith Anderson]], [[Ethel Merman]], [[Abbe Lane]], [[Eleanor Powell]], [[Helen Morgan (singer)|Helen Morgan]], [[The Nicholas Brothers]], [[Milton Berle]], [[Leo Carrillo]], [[Harriet Nelson]], [[Brian Donlevy]], [[Jane Froman]], [[Jack Haley]], [[Phil Silvers]], [[Roger Wolfe Kahn]], [[Judy Canova]], [[Nina Mae McKinney]], [[Marjorie Main]], [[Rose Marie]], [[Joe Penner]], [[Ethel Waters]], [[June Allyson]], [[Shemp Howard]], [[Lanny Ross]], [[Lionel Stander]], [[Edgar Bergen]], and [[Cyd Charisse]].