Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s.
Dorothy Janis was an American actress.
4 Devils is a lost 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by German director F. W. Murnau and starring Janet Gaynor. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process.
Ben Bard was an American movie actor, stage actor, and acting teacher. With comedian Jack Pearl, Bard worked in a comedy duo in vaudeville.
The Noose is an American silent drama film adaptation of the Willard Mack play The Noose, which was released in 1928 by First National Pictures. It stars Richard Barthelmess, Montagu Love, Robert Emmett O'Connor, and Thelma Todd. It was directed by John Francis Dillon and Richard Barthelmess's performance was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The movie was adapted by Garrett Graham and James T. O'Donohoe from the play. The play was also the basis of the Paramount Pictures film I'd Give My Life (1936).
Robert F. Kortman was an American film actor mostly associated with westerns, though he also appeared in a number of Laurel and Hardy comedies. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1914 and 1952.
The Great Radium Mystery is a 1919 American silent adventure film serial directed by Robert Broadwell and Robert F. Hill. This serial is now considered a lost film.
Winners of the West is a 1921 American silent Western film serial directed by Edward Laemmle. This serial is considered to be a lost film.
Barry Norton was an Argentine-American actor. He appeared in over 90 films, starting in silent films from 1925 until his death in 1956. He is perhaps best known for his role as Juan Harker in Universal Pictures' Spanish-language version of Drácula in 1931, the English language role of Jonathan Harker originated by David Manners.
No Other Woman is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Lou Tellegen and starring Dolores del Río. It was released by Fox Film Corporation on June 10, 1928.
Dressed to Kill is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring Mary Astor and Edmund Lowe. Astor was loaned from Warner Bros., for the film.
Kit Carson is a surviving 1928 American silent Western film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and Alfred L. Werker and written by Frederic Hatton, Frances Marion and Paul Powell. The film stars Fred Thomson, Nora Lane, Dorothy King, Raoul Paoli, William Courtright and Nelson McDowell. The film was released on June 23, 1928, by Paramount Pictures. It is loosely inspired by the life of the frontiersman Kit Carson. A sound film biopic Kit Carson was released in 1940.
Blood Will Tell is a lost 1927 American silent Western film directed by Ray Flynn and written by Paul Gangelin. The film stars Buck Jones, Katherine Perry, Lawford Davidson, Bob Kortman, Harry Gripp and Austen Jewell. The film was released on November 13, 1927, by Fox Film Corporation.
Mother Knows Best is a lost 1928 American sound part-talkie film directed by John G. Blystone, based on a novel by Edna Ferber, fictionalizing the life of vaudevillian Elsie Janis. The film was Fox's first part talkie, using the Movietone sound system which had primarily been used for synchronised music scores and effects tracks in Fox features beforehand, although as early as Mother Machree (1928), a single synchronous singing sequence was included in the film. The talking sequences in Mother Knows Best were directed by actor Charles Judels, while the synchronized sequences were directed by John G. Blystone. The film starred Madge Bellamy, with Louise Dresser as her domineering mother, Barry Norton, and Albert Gran.
Hills of Peril is a lost 1927 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Buck Jones and Georgia Hale. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation.
Win That Girl is a lost 1928 synchronized sound film comedy directed by David Butler and starring David Rollins and Sue Carol. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process.
The Arizona Wildcat is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Tom Mix, Dorothy Sebastian, and Ben Bard.
Two Girls Wanted, also known as 2 Girls Wanted, is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Janet Gaynor, Glenn Tryon and Ben Bard.
The Canyon of Light is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and written by John Stone and William Conselman. It is based on the story "The Cañon of Light" by Kenneth Perkins published in Argosy, March 6-April 3, 1926. The film stars Tom Mix, Dorothy Dwan, Barry Norton, Ralph Sipperly, Will Walling and Carmelita Geraghty. The film was released on December 5, 1926, by Fox Film Corporation.
Through the Wrong Door is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Madge Kennedy, John Bowers, Herbert Standing, J.B. Manly, and Bob Kortman. It is based on a story The Wrong Door by Jesse Lynch Williams. The film was released by Goldwyn Pictures on July 20, 1919.
