Vitaphone Varieties
Vitaphone Varieties is a series title (represented by a pennant logo on screen) used for all of Warner Bros.', earliest short film "talkies" of the 1920s, initially made using the Vitaphone sound on disc process before a switch to the sound-on-film format early in the 1930s. These were the first major film studio-backed sound films, initially showcased with the 1926 synchronized scored features Don Juan and The Better 'Ole. Although independent producers like Lee de Forest's Phonofilm were successfully making sound film shorts as early as 1922, they were very limited in their distribution and their audio was generally not as loud and clear in theaters as Vitaphone's. The success of the early Vitaphone shorts, initially filmed only in New York, helped launch the sound revolution in Hollywood.
Overview
[edit]The series featured many great vaudeville and musical performers of the 1920s. Classical musicians who dominated the early days of recorded sound made their film debuts, along with the many future stars of radio's "golden age": Fred Allen, Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Edgar Bergen, Jack Haley just to name a few. Several top stars at Warner Bros. and other studios like Joe E. Brown, Joan Blondell, William Demarest, Claire Trevor, Sylvia Sidney, Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy first appeared on screen in ten-minute dramatic and comedy sketches, as did a few silent stars making the transition like Blanche Sweet.
Al Jolson filmed A Plantation Act in August 1926, a full year before The Jazz Singer. When Warner Brothers decided to promote the feature as Jolson's talkie debut, the earlier short was removed from circulation. Initially thought lost, it was restored, in part by the Vitaphone Project's efforts, for a laser disc set in the 1990s and later released on DVD with the feature.[1][2]
At the time, there was much fear that these little films (and the sound features that followed) would kill vaudeville, a fear that was justified for many individual performers. While there was always a chance that a stage performer could become a household name by appearing in these, his or her act could no longer be repeated on stage, town after town, once one filmed performance appeared in theaters across the country. A few comedy acts for Vitaphone even made light of this fact, particularly Georgie Price’s 1929 title, Don't Get Nervous.
Although the term "Vitaphone Variety" was still used with some Warner film shorts running under one reel (or 10 minutes) well into the 1950s, the trade periodicals marketed them under different logos after the 1931–32 season: Pepper Pots and Vitaphone Novelties (after 1936), while lengthier productions (running two reels or 20 minutes) morphed into the Broadway Brevities. By this time, the primary producer in charge was Samuel Sax,[3][4] who oversaw the majority of the New York filmed productions. Later titles completed in California in the forties and fifties sometimes recycled the "Vitaphone Variety" logo, but were usually marketed in the trade periodicals as either "Hollywood Novelties" or "Warner Novelties" and were mostly documentary rather than musical or comedy acts. Among this later group, two 1945-46 titles, Story of a Dog and Smart as a Fox, were nominees for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in the one-reel category.
Recent rediscovery
[edit]The impact that the earliest Vitaphone Varieties had on world cinema has been a frequent footnote in many film history books, but it was only in recent decades that books have bothered to analyze them in depth (among them, Roy Liebman's Vitaphone Films and Edwin M. Bradley's The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926–1931).
The Vitaphone Project only started in 1991 rounding up missing discs and matching them with films made before the studio switched to optical film soundtracks. Three years later, MGM/UA issued the first group of them to laser disc, with Warner releasing the first significant number on DVD as part of a multi-disc edition of The Jazz Singer. Since then, the Warner Archive Collection has made more available in a series of sets, as well as re-releasing Don Juan with its accompanying shorts.
List of Vitaphone Varieties
[edit]The following list is not complete but fairly close. The 1926–1932 titles (the official "Vitaphone Varieties") are arranged by the Vitaphone title card numbers. They are then grouped by the year in which they were filmed, but not necessarily the same year they were released to theaters. If known, that date is listed right after the major credits (just the key director, if known, and the performers). Sometimes the date Film Daily reviewed it or the copyright date (©) is listed. DVD availability is also listed at the end of each line.[5][6][7]
1926
[edit]Listed by Vitaphone number. Filmed in 1926 in New York City.
| # | Title | Release, copyright or review date | Performers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116 | Pagliacci | February 1926 | Pagliacci & Vitaphone Symphony | First Warner Bros. short films |
| 131 | Bob Witt and Cy Berg | April 1926 | Bob Witt & Cy Berg with Vitaphone Symphony | |
| 165 | Rin Tin Tin | April 1926 | Rin Tin Tin and Corporal Lee Duncan | test film |
| 178 | The Volga Boatman | May 1926 | Vitaphone Symphony | |
| 183 | An Evening on the Don | August 6, 1926 | Shown at the premiere of Don Juan (1926 film).[8] | |
| 192 | Will Hays | August 6, 1926 | Will H. Hays | Don Juan (1926 film) DVD |
| 198 | Giovanni Martinelli | August 6, 1926 | Giovanni Martinelli | Don Juan (1926 film) DVD |
| 263 | Overture Tannhäuser | August 6, 1926 | Henry Kimball Hadley & the New York Philharmonic | Don Juan (1926 film) DVD |
| 274 & 275 | Mischa Elman | August 6, 1926 | Mischa Elman | (released as two separate film shorts) Don Juan (1926 film) DVD |
| 278 | Polonaise in A Flat | © April 7, 1927 | Harold Bauer | |
| 281 | Ephraim Zimbalist & Harold Bauer Duet | August 6, 1926 | Ephraim Zimbalist & Harold Bauer | Don Juan (1926 film) DVD |
| 294 | La Fiesta | August 6, 1926 | Anna Case, The Cansinos, Metropolitan Opera Chorus | Don Juan (1926 film) DVD |
| 296 | Swanee River | © April 8, 1927 | Anna Case, Roy Smeck & the Dixie Jubilee Singers | |
| 301 | The Recording | Doris Becker | ||
| 302 | His Pastimes | August 6, 1926 | Roy Smeck | Don Juan (1926 film) DVD |
| 308 | Marion Talley | August 6, 1926 | Marion Talley | Don Juan (1926 film) DVD |
| 314 | Overture to Mignon | August 6, 1926 | Henry Kimball Hadley & the New York Philharmonic | |
| 316 | Overture William Tell | August 6, 1926 | The New York Philharmonic | |
| 339 | Behind the Lines | October 5, 1926 | Elsie Janis | Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole (1926 film); The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 349 | Between the Acts at the Opera | October 5, 1926 | Willie and Eugene Howard | Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole (1926 film); Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 355 | George Jessel A Theatrical Booking Office | October 5, 1926 | George Jessel | Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole (1926 film) |
| 359 | A Plantation Act | October 7, 1926 | Al Jolson | Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole (1926 film); The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 361 & 365 | Reinald Werrenrath | © March 12, 1927 | Reinald Werrenrath | (released as two separate film shorts); Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole (1926 film) |
| 366 | Modern Song and Syncopation | © April 2, 1927 | The Four Aristocrats - Eddie Lewis, Fred Weber, Bert Bennet & Tom Miller | |
| 379 | Mme Schumann-Heink | © April 2, 1927 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink | |
| 380 | Madame Schumann-Heink | © April 4, 1927 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink | |
| 381 | The Spirit of 1918 Overture | October 7, 1926 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | Shown at the premiere of The Better 'Ole (1926 film) |
| 383 | Way Down South | October 7, 1926 | Mary Lewis | |
| 390 & 391 | Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra | October 7, 1926 | Vincent Lopez | (released as two separate film shorts) |
| 392 | Charles Hackett | © March 12, 1927 | Charles Hackett | |
| 393 | A Studio Scene | October 7, 1926 | Bruce Bairnsfather | |
| 394 | Jack Smith the Whispering Baritone | © March 12, 1927 | Whispering Jack Smith | |
| 416 & 417 | English Singers | © April 2, 1927 | Flora Mann, Lillian Berger, Norman Stone, Nellie Carson, Norman Motley and Cuthbert Kelly | (released as two separate film shorts) |
| 418 | What Price Piano | © March 12, 1927 | Pauline Alpert | |
| 419 | Pauline Alpert | © March 12, 1927 | Pauline Alpert | |
| ? | Casey at the Bat | 1926 | DeWolf Hopper |
1927
[edit]Listed by Vitaphone number. Filmed in 1927 both in Brooklyn (NYC) and Hollywood (LA)
| # | Title | Release, copyright or review date | Performers (and credited directors) | Additional notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 289 (NYC) | John Barclay, Tallest Baritone in the World | © April 4, 1927 | John Barclay | |
| 395 (NYC) | Gus Van & Joe Schenck | February 3, 1927 | Van and Schenck | Shown at the premiere of When a Man Loves (1927 film) |
| 414 (NYC) | Beniamino Gigli, assisted By M. Picco and Minna Egener and the Metropolitan Opera Chorus | February 3, 1927 | Beniamino Gigli | Shown at the premiere of When a Man Loves (1927 film) |
| 415 (NYC) | Quartet from Rigoletto | February 3, 1927 | Beniamino Gigli (on tenor), Giuseppe De Luca (on baritone), Jeanne Gordon (contralto) and Marion Talley (soprano) | Shown at the premiere of When a Man Loves (1927 film) |
| (NYC) | Cliff Edwards | March 1927 | Cliff Edwards | |
| 420 (NYC) | The Rollickers | © April 2, 1927 | Rollickers | |
| 422 (NYC) | Hawaiian Nights | February 3, 1927 | Hawaiian Orchestra | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 423 (NYC) | Margaret McKee, Famous Whistler | © April 2, 1927 | Margaret McKee | |
| 424-425 (NYC) | Rex Schepp, Famous Banjo Player | © April 2, 1927 | Rex Schepp | |
| 428 (NYC) | Waring's Pennsylvanians | © March 16, 1927 | Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 434 & 435 (NYC) | Neville Fleeson & Gladys Baxter "Vaudeville Headliners" | February 11, 1927 | Neville Fleeson & Gladys Baxter | (released as two separate film shorts) |
| 438 (NYC) | Albert Spalding, Renowned American Violinist | © April 4, 1927 | Albert Spalding (violinist) | |
| 439 (NYC) | Albert Spalding, Renowned American Violinist | August 19, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Albert Spalding (violinist) | |
| 441 & 442 (NYC) | Buddy Doyle, Popular Black Faced Comedian | © April 4, 1927 | Buddy Doyle | (released as two separate film shorts) |
| 443 (NYC) | Bernado De Pace "Wizard of the Mandolin" | April 4, 1927 | Bernardo De Pace | The Jazz Singer DVD. Title card misspells De Pace's name |
| 444 (NYC) | Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Impersonated and Interpreted by Lincoln Caswell | © April 4, 1927 | Lincoln Caswell | |
| 445 & 446 (NYC) | The Little Princess of Song | © April 4, 1927 | Sylvia Froos | (two separate film shorts) |
| 447 (NYC) | The Poet and Peasant Overture | © April 18, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | |
| 448 (NYC) | The Light Cavalry Overture | © June 29, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | |
| 449 (NYC) | The Raymond Overture | © April 18, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | |
| 450 (NYC) | The Morning, Noon and Night Overture | © April 9, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | |
| 451 (NYC) | Frances Alda and the Vitaphone Symphony | © April 9, 1927 | Frances Alda | |
| 461 (NYC) | The Orpheus Overture | © April 18, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | |
| 462 (NYC) | The Evolution of Dixie Overture | © July 2, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Orchestra | |
| 463 (NYC) | Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, International Stars of Syncopation | © April 9, 1927 | Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake | |
| 464 (NYC) | Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, International Stars of Syncopation | © April 18, 1927 | Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake | |
| 465 (NYC) | Pennant Winning Battery of Songland | © April 9, 1927 | Van and Schenck||The Jazz Singer DVD | |
| 466 (NYC) | The Flonzaley Quartet, the World's Foremost String Ensemble | © April 18, 1927 | Flonzaley Quartet with Adolfo Betti & Alfred Pochon (on violin), Iwan D'Archambeau (on cello) & Nicolas Moldavan (on viola) | |
| 467 (NYC) | The Flonzaley Quartet, the World's Foremost String Ensemble | © April 18, 1927 | The Flonzaley Quartet | |
| 468 (NYC) | Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra | 1927 | Roger Wolfe Kahn & Mound City Blue Blowers | |
| 469 (NYC) | Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra | February 1927 | Roger Wolfe Kahn with Henri Garden & the Williams Sisters | |
| 472 & 473 (NYC) | Bert Lewis "Broadway's Comedian" | © April 9, 1927 | Bert Lewis with Jack Carroll at piano | (released as two separate film shorts) |
| 474 (NYC) | Giovanni Martinelli Assisted by Jeanne Gordon | © April 18, 1927 | Giovanni Martinelli | |
| 475 (NYC) | Isa Kremer, the Supreme Interpreter of Ballad and Folk Songs | © April 9, 1927 | Isa Kremer | |
| 476 (NYC) | The Bennett Twins | © April 9, 1927 | Bennett Twins | |
| 477 (NYC) | A Naval Quartet | © July 2, 1927 | The Admirals (Norman Bartlett, Jack Armstrong, Henry Durrett & Jack Keyes) | |
| 479 (NYC) | Lyrics of Life | © April 18, 1927 | May Usher | |
| 480 (NYC) | Ruth Glanville, America's Premiere Saxophonist | © April 9, 1927 | Ruth Glanville & the Vitaphone Orchestra | |
| 481 (NYC) | John Charles Thomas, Renowned Stage and Concert Artist | © April 18, 1927 | John Charles Thomas | |
| 482 & 483 (NYC) | The Revelers | © April 18, 1927 | the Revelers | (released as two separate film shorts); Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 484 (NYC) | A Moonlight Romance | © April 18, 1927 | Douglas Stanbury & Maria Gambarelli | |
| 485 (NYC) | The Morrisey and Miller Vitaphone Revue | © April 18, 1927 | Will Morrisey & Midgie Miller with Dave Ferguson, John Agee's dancing bull and "black bottom" horse, the Vitaphone Chorus & Gene Salzer's Orchestra. | |
| 488 (NYC) | The Barber of Seville | © May 6, 1927 | Giuseppe De Luca | frequently aired on Turner Classic Movies |
| 490 (NYC) | A Russian Wedding Celebration | © April 19, 1927 | Moscow Art Ensemble | |
| 491 (NYC) | Eddie Conrad, Broadway's Favorite Comedian | © April 19, 1927 | Eddie Conrad with Charlotte Conrad & ballerina Marion Eddy | |
| 492 (NYC) | Johnny Marvin, Musical Comedy Star and Victor Recording Artist | © July 2, 1927 | Johnny Marvin with Murray Kellner on violin, Andy Sannella on guitar and Frank Banta on piano | |
| 493 & 494 (NYC) | John Charles Thomas and Vivienne Segal | © April 18, 1927 | John Charles Thomas & Vivienne Segal | (released as two separate film shorts) |
| 496 (NYC) | The Reformer | © June 29, 1927 | Joe Browning | |
| 498 (NYC) | Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera Company | © May 6, 1927 | Beniamino Gigli | |
| 499 (NYC) | Marion Talley and Beniamino Gigli | © June 29, 1927 | Marion Talley & Beniamino Gigli | |
| 500 (NYC) | California Collegians | released? | ||
| 501 (NYC) | Raymond Eisman, the Little Artist | © July 2, 1927 | Raymond Eisman | |
| 503 (NYC) | Utica Jubilee Singers | © May 7, 1927 | ||
| 505 (NYC) | Twinkle Twinkle | April 1927 | Joe E. Brown | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 507 (NYC) | At the Ball Game | May 7, 1927 | Leo Carrillo | |
| 509 (NYC) | Giovanni Martinelli Assisted by Louis D'Angelo | April 1927 | Giovanni Martinelli | |
| 510 (NYC) | Giovanni Martinelli | April 1927 | Giovanni Martinelli | |
| 512 (NYC) | A Song Recital | © June 29, 1927 | Hearst Radio Kids | |
| 515 (NYC) | The Kouns Sisters, the Mirror Voiced Sopranos | © July 2, 1927 | Nellie & Sarah Kouns | |
| 517 (NYC) | Beniamino Gigli Singing Selections from Act 2 of the Opera La Gioconda | © June 29, 1927 | Beniamino Gigli | |
| 518 (NYC) | The Pearl Fishers | © March 15, 1928 | Beniamino Gigli & Giuseppe De Luca | |
| 519 (NYC) | Florence Moore and Lt. Gitz Rice | © February 18, 1928 | Florence Moore & Lieutenant Gitz Rice | |
| 521 (NYC) | Carlos Sedano, Celebrated Concert Violinist | © June 29, 1927 | Carlos Sedano | |
| 524 (NYC) | Rosa Raisa and Giacomo Rimini | © May 19, 1927 | Rosa Raisa & Giacomo Rimini | |
| 527 & 528 (NYC) | The Yacht Club Boys, Popular Instrumental and Vocal Group | © June 29, 1927 | Yacht Club Boys | (released as two separate film shorts) |
| 530 & 531 (NYC) | The Record Boys, Radio Winners | © June 28, 1927 | Frank Kamplain, Samuel Step & Al Bernard | (released as two separate film shorts) |
| 532 (NYC) | The Loomis Twins, Darlings of Songland | © June 29, 1927 | Maxine & Virginia Loomis | |
| 534 (NYC) | A Few Moments with George Jessel | © June 29, 1927 | George Jessel & Alex Sater | |
| 535 (NYC) | An Office Scene | © June 29, 1927 | George Jessel, Muriel Gray, Gladys Keck and Charles Canfield | |
| 536 & 537 (NYC) | Billy Jones & Ernie Hare, the Happiness Boys | June 29, 1927 | The Happiness Boys | two same titled film shorts; #537 available on Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 539 & 540 (NYC) | The Sunshine Boys "Triple Alliance of Song, Music and Fun" | © June 9, 1927 | Dave Ringle, Eddie Roth & Billy Sharkey | (two separate film shorts) |
| 542 (NYC) | Rosa Raisa and Giacomo Rimini (#2) | © May 19, 1927 | Rosa Raisa & Giacomo Rimini | |
| (NYC) | Banjo Buddy | June 1927 | Harold Sandelman | |
| (NYC) | Wanda Goll | June 1927 | Wanda Goll | |
| 543 (NYC) | Pals | © July 18, 1927 | Willie and Eugene Howard | |
| 544 (NYC) | The Four Aristocrats | May 1927 (filming date); © November 3, 1927 | The Four Aristocrats (Bert Bennett, Fred Weber, Eddie Lewis & Tom Miller) | Features "My Regular Gal"; "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover"; "You'll Never Be Missed a Hundred Years from Now" |
| 545 (NYC) | The Four Aristocrats | May 1927 (filming date); © November 3, 1927 | The Four Aristocrats (Bert Bennett, Fred Weber, Eddie Lewis & Tom Miller) | Features "A Little Music in the Moonlight"; "I Gotta Get Myself Somebody to Love"; "(The Gang That Sang) Heart of My Heart" |
| 546 (NYC) | The Four Aristocrats | May 1927 (filming date); © July 11, 1927 | The Four Aristocrats (Bert Bennett, Fred Weber, Eddie Lewis & Tom Miller) | Features "Hello! Swanee - Hello!"; "Don't Sing Aloha When I Go"; "I Never See Maggie Alone"; "Me Too" |
| 547 (NYC) | The Four Aristocrats | May 1927 (filming date); © July 11, 1927 | The Four Aristocrats (Bert Bennett, Fred Weber, Eddie Lewis & Tom Miller) | Features "Looking at the World thru Rose Colored Glasses"; "Bells of Hawaii"; "Voom Voom"; "The Glow-Worm"; "Sing, Katie" |
| 548 (NYC) | Blossom Seeley & Benny Fields | © July 11, 1927 | Blossom Seeley, Benny Fields, the Music Boxes, Chas Bourne & Phil Ellis on piano | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 549 (NYC) | Six Original Brown Brothers, Saxaphonic Jazz Masters and Orchestra | April 1927 | Original Brown Brothers | |
| 552 (NYC) | Call of the Nile | © July 11, 1927 | Charles Hackett | |
| 553 (NYC) | The Piano Duellists | © July 11, 1927 | Victor Arden & Phil Ohman | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 556-558 (NYC) | Cantor Josef Rosenblatt | May 1927 | Yossele Rosenblatt | |
| 557 (NYC) | Senator Edward H. Ford | © July 11, 1927 | Edward H. Ford | |
| 560 (NYC) | Irving and Jack Kaufman, Harmony Songsters | May 1927 | Irving Kaufman (singer), Jack Kaufman | |
| 562 (NYC) | Venita Gould, Famous Star Impersonator | © July 18, 1927 | Venita Gould | |
| 563 (NYC) | Eddie Conrad, Broadway's Favorite Comedian "So Far So Good" | © July 18, 1927 | Eddie Conrad, ballet with Marion Eddy & Charlotte Conrad | |
| 565 (NYC) | The Diplomats, High Hat Syncopators of Jazz | © July 18, 1927 | Teddy King, Hal Salies, Johnny Ferrara, Andy Hamilton, Harry Nadell, Walter Read & George Coon | |
| 566 (NYC) | Aunt Jemima "The Original Fun Flour Maker" | © July 18, 1927 | Tess Gardella with pianist Art Sorenson | |
| 568 (NYC) | Ernestine Schumann-Heink | © July 18, 1927 | Ernestine Schumann-Heink | |
| 570 (NYC) | Mike and Meyer | © July 18, 1927 | Joe Weber (vaudevillian) & Lew Fields | |
| 571 (NYC) | Arnaut Brothers the Famous Loving Birds | © July 18, 1927 | John & Rene Arnaut | |
| 572 (NYC) | In a Casting Office | © July 18, 1927 | Willie and Eugene Howard with Sonia Jackson | |
| 573 (NYC) | Frances Williams, Broadway's Queen of Jazz | © July 18, 1927 | Frances Williams with Leo Feiner & the Vitaphone Symphony | |
| 574 (NYC) | Biff and Bang Fisticuffs Funsters "Winner By A Nose" | © July 18, 1927 | Ivan Falkenstein, Milton Weiss & Eddie Lewis | |
| 608 (NYC) | Frank Moulan, Comedian and Comic Song Writer | © August 8, 1927 | Frank Moulan | |
| 609 (NYC) | The Four Buddies, Harmony Songsters | © August 22, 1927 | Leonard Saxon, Philip Duey, James Waites and Henry Shope | |
| 610 (NYC) | The Gale Brothers, Juvenile Comedians | © August 8, 1927 | Abraham & Isadore Gale | |
| 611 (NYC) | Adele Le Narr, the Wonder Kid of Vaudeville | June 1927 | Adele Le Narr | |
| 612 (NYC) | The Merl Twins, Syncopating Songsters | © August 8, 1927 | Belle & Cecille Merl | |
| 613 (NYC) | Knight MacGregor | © August 8, 1927 | Knight MacGregor with pianist Edna Wallace | |
| 614 (NYC) | Horace Britt | © August 22, 1927 | Horace Britt with pianist Ruth M. Connist | |
| 616 (NYC) | Roselle and Mack, Song and Dance Thrillers | June 1927 | Mildred Rosenburg & Max Epstein | |
| 617 (NYC) | Bob MacGregor, Radio's Scotch Comedian | © August 22, 1927 | Bob MacGregor with Elspeth Brownwell at piano | |
| 619 (NYC) | Harry Montgomery the Humorologist | © August 22, 1927 | Harry Montgomery | |
| 623 (NYC) | Miller and Farrell, Society's Favorite Entertainers | June 1927 | James Miller & Charles Farell | |
| 625 (NYC) | The Freeman Sisters, Sunshine Spreaders from Roxy's Gang | © August 22, 1927 | Mildred & Marjorie Freeman | |
| (NYC) | Bert Fiske | (released?) | Bert Fiske | |
| (NYC) | Radio Station | (released?) | Harry Downing | |
| 2101 (LA) | Those Pullman Brothers, the Kings of Harmony | © August 8, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director), Pullman Brothers | |
| 2102 (LA) | A Night at Coffee Dan's (Ten Minutes at Coffee Dan's) | © August 15, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); William Demarest, Hutchings & Holloway, Nita Martan & Miss Gogo | |
| 2103 (LA) | Banjomania | © August 22, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Eddie Peabody | |
| 2104 (LA) | Visions of Spain | © August 22, 1927 | Lina Basquette, Sam Ash & Arthur Kay conducting the Vitaphone Orchestra | |
| 2105 (LA) | Hot Songs and Hot Fingers | © August 8, 1927 | The Trigg Brothers (Johnny & Jack Trigg) with John Maxwell & the Vitaphone Orchestra | |
| 2106 (LA) | Allan Prior, Famous Australian Tenor and Star of "The Student Prince" | © September 13, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director), Allan Prior | |
| 2107 (LA) | The College Boy and California Medley Girls | © September 13, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); George Givot, Pearl Leonard & Nina Hinds | |
| 2108 (LA) | The Accordion Man and Girl Imitator | June 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Dorothy Murray & Earl La Vere with De Sues, Furney & Johnson | |
| 2109 (LA) | Carolynne Snowden & Co. - Colored Syncopation | © August 4, 1927 | Carolynne Snowden, Henry "Tin Can" Allen, Harvey Oliver Brooks & Thomas Valentine | |
| 2110 (LA) | Cockatoos at Their Best | © September 13, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Fritz Landes | |
| 2111 (LA) | Sherry Louise Marshall and the Three Bad Boys | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director), Sherry Louise Marshall, Cliff Sherry, Gene Warren & Bud Foster | |
| 2112 (LA) | Hazel Green and Company | © September 13, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director), Hazel Green | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2113 (LA) | Russ Wildey and Billy Sheehan "Famous Radio and Vaudeville Artists" | © September 13, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Accompanied by Arthur Kay & the Vitaphone Orchestra. | |
| 2114 (LA) | Carnival Night in Paris | © December 4, 1927 | Henry Halstead Orchestra with Betty Patrick | |
| 2115 (LA) | Doris Duncan, Herring and Zeb | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director), Doris Duncan | |
| 2116 (LA) | Cliff Nazarro "Versatile Young Artist" and the Two Marjories | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Cliff Nazarro | |
| 2117 (LA) | In a Blacksmith's Shop | © November 8, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); J. Delon Jewkes & the Blacksmiths | |
| 2118 (LA) | Auriole Craven the Dancing Violinist | © September 13, 1927 | Auriole Craven | |
| 2119 (LA) | O'Neil and Vermont, the Two Dark Knights | © December 27, 1927 | O'Neil & Vermont | |
| 2120 (LA) | The Cruse Brothers "Missouri Sheiks" with "Old Time Melodies in an Old Time Way" | © November 3, 1927 | The Cruse Brothers | |
| 2121 (LA) | The Beauty of Old Time Music | © November 8, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); the Three Colonial Girls (Louise Klos, Anna Timmnr and Jeanette Rogers) | |
| 2122 (LA) | Joseph Diskay, the Hungarian Tenor | © November 3, 1927 | Joseph Diskay | |
| 2123 (LA) | Reb Spikes and His Follies Entertainers (Premiere Colored Orchestra with Dancers) | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director), Reb Spikes | |
| 2124 (LA) | The Cruse Brothers, the Arkansaw Trio | © September 13, 1927 | The Cruse Brothers | |
| 2125 (LA) | Don Cummings the Drawing Room Roper | © October 18, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director), Don Cummings | |
| 2126 (LA) | Joe Wong the Chinese Jazz Boy | © October 17, 1927 | Joe Wong | |
| 2127 (LA) | High Up and Low Down | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Harry & Dan Downing | |
| 2128 (LA) | Jane Pursell, Hollywood's Radio Girl | © October 17, 1927 | Jane Pursell | |
| 2129 (LA) | The Boob and His Harmonica | © October 17, 1927 | Britt Wood | |
| 2130 (LA) | Amateur Night | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); William Demarest | |
| 2131 (LA) | Personalities | © October 17, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Florrie Le Vere & Lou Handman | |
| 2132 (LA) | The Hoot Gibson Trio "The Hawaiian Serenaders" | © November 3, 1927 | The Hoot Gibson Trio | |
| 2133 (LA) | The Lash | © November 3, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Hal Crane, William B. Davidson, Richard Tucker & others | |
| 2134
(LA) |
Under the Sea | © May 11, 1927 | Gus Reed and his Frolickers | |
| 2135 (LA) | The Talking Violin and the Blues Singer | August 1927 | Wade Watts & Bobby Gilbert | |
| 2136 (LA) | Gus Arnheim & His Ambassadors | © January 30, 1928 | Gus Arnheim | |
| 2137 (LA) | Tuning In | © November 3, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Murray Roth (story) | |
| 2138 (LA) | Night Court | © November 28, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Murray Roth (story); William Demarest | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2139 (LA) | The Serpentine | © December 29, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Elmira Lane & the Vitaphone Girls | |
| 2140 (LA) | Lillian Crowell and Ty Parvis, Vaudeville's Talented Children | © November 3, 1927 | Lillian Crowell & Ty Parvis | |
| 2141 (LA) | Realization | © November 3, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Hugh Herbert, Anita Pam & Lee Kinney | |
| 2142 (LA) | The Friars in a Monastery Cellar | © November 3, 1927 | The Monastery Quartet | |
| 2143 (LA) | When the Wife's Away | © November 28, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Mabel Normandie & William Demarest | |
| 2144 (LA) | The Land of Harmony | © November 28, 1927 | Bartram & Saxton | |
| 2145 (LA) | The Sweet Long Ago | © November 28, 1927 | Alice Wellman & Paul Russell | |
| 2146 (LA) | Two Doves in Dark Days | © November 28, 1927 | Walter Weams & Ed Garr | |
| 2147 (LA) | The Hostess | © November 28, 1927 | Sally Fields (billed as "America's Greatest Entertainer") | |
| 2148 (LA) | Solly Ward the "Foremost German Comedian" at the Party | © November 28, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director), Solly Ward | |
| 2149 (LA) | The Hunt: Hunting Songs | © December 29, 1927 | Frolicker's Quartet & Vernon Rickard | |
| 2149 (LA) | French Leave "War Days In the Trenches" | © November 23, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Mildred Bailey & the Frolickers Quartette | |
| 2150 (LA) | Jane and Katherine Lee | © December 4, 1927 | Jane & Katherine Lee | |
| 2159 (LA) | Buddy Cooper and Sammy Stept, Song Hit Writers | © December 8, 1927 | Buddy Cooper & Sammy Stept | |
| 2160 (LA) | Frank and Teddy Sabini, Popular Italian Comedians | © December 4, 1927 | Frank & Teddy Sabini | |
| 2169 (LA) | Non-Support | © December 4, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Burr McIntish with Paul Kruger, Bonie Jean DeBard, Linda Ann Corlin & Harry Foy | |
| 2170 (LA) | Phedre Overture | © December 29, 1927 | Herman Heller & Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra | |
| 2178 (LA) | Two Doves Flying High | © December 4, 1927 | Walter Weams & Ed Garr | |
| 2179 (LA) | Stranded | December 8, 1927 | Richard Carle | |
| 2180 (LA) | Hurley, Putnam and Snell, Popular Song Trio | © December 8, 1927 | Hurley, Putnam & Snell | |
| 2188 (LA) | The Tout | © December 8, 1927 | Frank Gaby | |
| 2189 (LA) | Arthur Pat West and His Middies "Syncopated Blues Players" | © December 8, 1927 | Arthur Pat West | |
| 2190 (LA) | Leon Navara in a Pianologue | © December 8, 1927 | Leon Navara | |
| 2199 (LA) | A Lesson in Golf | © December 8, 1927 | Alex J. Morrison & Walter Weams | |
| 2233 (LA) | A Man of Peace | © April 21, 1928 | Hobart Bosworth with Charles Middleton & Ann McCay | |
| 2234 (LA) | The Death Ship | © June 2, 1928 | Jose Jackson (story); Mitchell Lewis, Jason Robards, Sr. & Elizabeth Page | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2239 (LA) | Sunny California | © May 1, 1928 | May McAvoy with Neely Edwards, Richard Carle & Arthur Collins | |
| 2240 (LA) | Solomon's Children | © December 27, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Hugh Herbert | |
| 2242 (LA) | Dream Café | © December 27, 1927 | Jimmy Clemons | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2243 (LA) | Jolly Fanny Rice In "Types" | © December 27, 1927 | Fanny Rice | |
| 2244 (LA) | Putting It On | © December 27, 1927 | Bryan Foy (director); Claudia Coleman | |
| 2245 (LA) | Lynn Cowan Master of Ceremonies and Song Writer - Original Songs | © December 27, 1927 | Lynn Cowan | |
| 2246 (LA) | The Eternal Barrier | © December 29, 1927 | Sarah Padden | |
| 2247 (LA) | All In (For) Fun | © December 29, 1927 | Charles Smith (story), John Hyams & Leila McIntire | |
| 2249 (LA) | Campus Capers | © February 4, 1928 | The Collegiate Four | |
| 2250 (LA) | A Spanish Serenade | © February 4, 1928 | The La Valles | |
| 2251 (LA) | The Worrier | © February 4, 1928 | Richard Carle | |
| 2252 (LA) | The Author | © February 4, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); Walter Weems & Leo Sulkey | |
| 2253 (LA) | Songs and Dances | © January 21, 1928 | Dodie Coyle & Bobby Weir | |
| 2254 (LA) | A Neapolitan Romance | © February 4, 1928 | Pasquale Amato & Lillian Miles (on piano) | |
| 2255 (LA) | Men Among Men | © January 21, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); Fred Ardath | |
| 2256 (LA) | Clair Omar Musser, the World's Foremost Marimbaphonist | © January 21, 1928 | Clair Omar Musser | |
| 2257 (LA) | Two Doves Scared Stiff | © February 4, 1928 | Walter Weems & Ed Garr | |
| 2258 (LA) | Lynn Cowan, Vitaphone Community Singer | © December 27, 1927 | Lynn Cowan | |
| 2259 (LA) | The Lemon | © February 4, 1928 | Hugh Herbert | |
| 2260 (LA) | Master Gilbert, Sensational Child Artist | © January 21, 1928 | Master Gilbert | |
| 2261 (LA) | Harry Wayman & His Debutantes (Premiere Feminine Jazz Band) | © February 4, 1928 | Harry Wayman | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2262 (LA) | A Garden of Songs | © January 21, 1928 | The Harrington Sisters | |
| 2263 (LA) | His Night Out | © February 17, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); John Miljan | |
| 2264 (LA) | Playing Pranks With Webster | © February 4, 1928 | Johnny Hyman | |
| 2266 (LA) | Gene Morgan, the West's Comedian and His Orchestra | © February 17, 1928 | Gene Morgan | |
| 2267 (LA) | Rin Tin Tin and His Owner, Mr. Lee Duncan | February 4, 1928 | Rin Tin Tin | |
| 2268 (LA) | Souvenirs | © February 17, 1928 | Sarah Padden, Allen Stansell & Molly Fisher | |
| 2269 (LA) | Haleyisms | © February 17, 1928 | Jack Haley & Flo McFadden | |
| 2270 (LA) | Frank Richardson, the Joy Boy of Song | © February 17, 1928 | Frank Richardson | |
| 2271 (LA) | Bartch-A-Kalloop | © February 10, 1928 | Steve Freda & Johnny Palace | |
| 2272 (LA) | Coscia and Verdi, Music Glorified, Classified and Mortified | © March 15, 1928 | Phil Coscia & Al Verdi | |
| 2273 (LA) | The Book Worm | January 4, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); Harry Conley, Ethel De Voe & Duncan Harris | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2274 (LA) | Abe Lyman Orchestra "Syncopated Symphony" | © February 18, 1928 | Abe Lyman Band with Jimmy Ray | |
| 2275 (LA) | On the Air: An All Star Playlet | © February 18, 1928 | John Maxwell, Hugh Herbert, Fanny Rice & Harry Downing | |
| 2276 (LA) | Proff Moore and His Hotel Orchestra "California’s King of Harmony" | © February 15, 1929 | Proff Moore & His Roosevelt Hotel Orchestra | |
| 2277 (LA) | A Few Minutes in the Mines | © March 3, 1928 | Flynn O'Malley, Vernon Rickard & the Black Diamond Four Quartette | |
| 2278 (LA) | Character Studies | January 4, 1928 | Montague Love | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2279 (LA) | The Beast | © February 18, 1928 | Irene Rich with John Miljan & Barry Townly | |
| 2280 (LA) | The Imperial Russian Cossacks | © March 3, 1928 | ||
| 2281 & 2282 (LA) | The Florentine Choir "Italy's Greatest Ensemble" | © February 18, 1928 | The Florentine Choir | (released as two similar titled films) |
| 2283 (LA) | The Fashion Plates of Harmony | © March 3, 1928 | Messrs. Reese, R.L. Williams & Maginetti | |
| 2284 (LA) | Lucky in Love | © March 15, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director?); Clyde Cook, Hugh Herbert | |
| 2285 (LA) | Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | © March 3, 1928 | Earl Burtnett | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2286 (LA) | Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | © March 3, 1928 | Earl Burtnett | |
| 2290 (LA) | Papa's Vacation | © March 31, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); William Demarest | |
| 2291 (LA) | Vincent Rose and Jackie Taylor and Their Hollywood Montmartre Orchestra | © March 3, 1928 | Vincent Rose & Jackie Taylor | |
| 2292 (LA) | Vincent Rose and Jackie Taylor with the Hollywood Montmartre Orchestra | September 30, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Vincent Rose & Jackie Taylor | |
| 2300 (LA) | Juvenile Musicians | © March 31, 1928 | Charles D. McCoy's Newsboys Harmonica Band | |
| 2309 (LA) | Nat Carr, Character Comedian | © December 8, 1927 | Nat Carr | |
| 2310 (LA) | The Herman Music Box | © March 31, 1928 | Jack Lipton & Lola Terrell | |
| 2318 (LA) | East Side West Side | © December 29, 1927 | Joe Weston & Collette Lyons | |
| 2319 (LA) | Ten Minutes | © March 3, 1928 | Robert T. Haines with Guy d'Ennery | |
| 2320 (LA) | The Police Quartette | December 29, 1927 | Los Angeles Police singing group | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2328 (LA) | In the Park | © February 18, 1928 | Brown & Whitaker | |
| 2329 (LA) | Frank Richardson, the Joy Boy of Song #2 | © February 18, 1928 | Frank Richardson | |
| 2338 (LA) | Abe Lyman and His Orchestra | © February 18, 1928 | Abe Lyman and His Orchestra | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD; aka "Maestro of Syncopated Symphony" |
| 2347 (LA) | Jimmy Lyons, the General of Hilarity | © April 21, 1928 | Jimmy Lyons | |
| 2369 (LA) | The Foreigner | © April 30, 1928 | Leo Carrillo | |
| 2379 (LA) | Charles Hackett, Leading Tenor of the Chicago Opera Company - Schubert's "Who Is Sylvia" | © July 1, 1928 | Charles Hackett |
1928
[edit]Listed by Vitaphone number. Filmed in 1928 in Hollywood unless marked (NYC)
| # | Title | Release, copyright or review date | Performers (and credited director) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2232 | Two Boys and a Piano | © March 15, 1928 | Brooks & Ross | |
| 2235 | Hollywood Bound | © June 4, 1928 | Gladys Brockwell, James Bradburry, Neely Edwards, Anita Pam & Allan Sears | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2236 | When East Meets West | © March 15, 1928 | Ray Mayer & Edith Evans | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2237 | Miss Information | April 10, 1928 | Bryan Foy & F. Hugh Herbert (directors); Lois Wilson, Edward Everett Horton, Allan Sears & others | |
| 2238 | The Question of Today | March 15, 1928 | Lloyd Bacon (director); Audrey Ferris, Landers Stevens & others | |
| 2265 | A Laugh or Two | © February 4, 1928 | Russ Brown & Jean Whittaker | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2285 | Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | March 3, 1928 | Earl Burtnett | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2286 | Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | March 3, 1928 | Earl Burtnett | |
| 2287 | Overtones | © March 15, 1928 | Ursula Faucit, Elizabeth Page & others | |
| 2288 | Vitaphone Community Sing #2 | © July 24, 1928 | Lynn Cowan | |
| 2289 | The Notre Dame Glee Club | © April 30, 1928 | Joseph J. Casasanta (conductor) | |
| 2293 | The Morrissey & Miller Night Club Revue | © May 19, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); Will Morrisey & Midgie Miller with Harry Downing, Charlotte DeLovelace, Vina & Arthur and Sammy Cantor | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2294 | Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | © March 3, 1928; September 29, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Earl Burtnett | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2295 | Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra | © March 3, 1928 | Earl Burtnett | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2296 | Billy & Elsa Newell, Those Hot Tamales | April 30, 1928 | Billy & Elsa Newell | |
| 2297 | The Movie Chatterbox | © April 10, 1928 | Polly Moran | |
| 2298 | Ted Doner "Broadway's Favorite Dancing Man" and His Sunkist Beauties | March 31, 1928 | Ted Doner | |
| 2299 | Xavier Cugat and His Gigolos: A Spanish Ensemble | March 25, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Xavier Cugat | |
| 2339 | The Cowboy and the Girl | © April 21, 1928 | Ray Mayer & Edith Evans | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2348 | Stories in Song | March 18, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Adele Rowland with Mildred Brown (piano) | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2349 | The Jazzmania Quintette | © April 10, 1928 | Georgie Stoll & Edythe Flynn | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2358 | Herbert Rawlinson, the Monologist of the Screen | © June 2, 1928 | Herbert Rawlinson | |
| 2359 | Renee Tumanova and Company, Three Russian Gypsies | © May 19, 1928 | Renee Tumanova | |
| 2368 | Lead Kindly Light | © July 23, 1928 | Irene Rich | |
| 2409 | Jimmy Lyons | © February 4, 1928 | Jimmy Lyons | |
| 2418 | Retribution | © June 14, 1928 | Archie Mayo (director); Henry B. Walthall, Tom McGuire & Ed Cane | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2430 | General Vitaphone Trailer | © March 31, 1928 | Conrad Nagel | |
| 2517–2518 (two-reeler) | The Prediction | © July 10, 1928 | Hugh Herbert with Anita Pam, Otto Lederer & Guy D'Enner | |
| 2538 | Dorothy Whitmore, the Popular Prima Donna in a Song Recital | © September 5, 1928 | Dorothy Whitmore | |
| 2539 | Seven Minutes of Your Time | © September 5, 1928 | Benny Rubin | |
| 2540 | By the Campfire | © May 19, 1928 | Xavier Cugat & Company (Melodious Gypsies) | |
| 2541 | The Ice Man | © May 19, 1928 | Murray Roth (director); Charles Rogers | |
| 2542 | Character Songs | © June 2, 1928 | Harry Delf | |
| 2543 | A Colorful Sermon | © May 19, 1928 | Bert Swor | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2544 | Ducks and Deducts | © May 19, 1928 | Bert Swor | |
| 2545 | Mme Rosa Raisa (Soprano of the Chicago Opera Company) "Goodbye Forever" & "Eli Eli" | © May 19, 1928 | Rosa Raisa | |
| 2546 | Mme Rosa Raisa "Plaisir d'Amour" & "La Paloma" | © May 19, 1928 | Rosa Raisa | |
| 2547 | Vitaphone Community Sing #1 | © March 3, 1928 | Lynn Cowan | |
| 2548 | Stop and Go | © November 6, 1928 | Eddie Nelson with Jack Lipson | |
| 2550 | The Movie Man | © June 2, 1928 | Charles Rogers with Violet Palmer, Walter Rodgers & Louise Carver | |
| 2551 | Soup | © June 2, 1928 | Harry Delf | |
| 2552 | The Hell Gate of Soissons | © August 14, 1928 | Leo Carrillo | |
| 2553 | Jest Moments | © July 1, 1928 | The Klein Brothers | |
| 2554 | Wanted - a Man | © August 25, 1928 | Daphne Pollard | |
| 2555 | Charles Irwin, the Debonair Humorist | © July 1, 1928 | Charles Irwin | |
| 2556 | The Globe Trotters | © July 1, 1928 | Bill Bailey & Barnum | |
| 2557 | Without a Band | © July 1, 1928 | Bill Bailey & Barnum | |
| 2558 | Two White Elephants | © July 1, 1928 | Bill Bailey & Barnum | |
| 2559 | In a Music Shop | © July 12, 1928 | Eddie Peabody | |
| 2560 | Banjoland | © June 2, 1928 | Eddie Peabody with Jimmy Maisel | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2561 | Keep Smiling | © July 1, 1928 | Ed Lowry & His Orchestra | |
| 2562 | The Larry Ceballos Revue | March 1928 | Larry Ceballos accompanied by Owen Fallon's Orchestra, Al Herman Badger & Lory, Irma, Dot & Ama Lou | |
| 2563 | Giving In | © July 1, 1928 | Murray Roth (director); Harry Delf, Hedda Hopper & others | |
| 2565 | The Happy Jester | © July 1, 1928 | Ed Lowry | |
| 2566 | Dixie Days "Negro Spirituals" | © August 18, 1928 | Dixie Days | |
| 2567 | Cleo to Cleopatra | © June 30, 1928 | Daphne Pollard | |
| 2568–2569 (two-reeler) | Wives, etc. | © June 30, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); Charles Ruggles | |
| 2570 | Glorifying the American Song | © July 1, 1928 | The Brox Sisters | |
| 2571 | Down South | © July 1, 1928 | The Brox Sisters | |
| 2572 | The Band Beautiful | © June 30, 1928 | The Ingenues All-Girl Orchestra | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2572 & 2573 | The Ingenues the Syncopating Sweeties | © June 15, 1928 | The Ingenues | (two separate film shorts) |
| 2574 | A Little Bit of Everything | © July 1, 1928 | Eddie Quillan & Marie Quillan | |
| 2575–2576 (two-reeler) | The Swelled Head (The Swellhead) | © July 14, 1928 | Eddie Foy, Jr. & Bessie Love | |
| 2577 | Sharps and Flats | © July 24, 1928 | Jimmy Conlin & Myrtle Glass | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2578 | Assassin of Grief and Remorse | © July 24, 1928 | Al Herman & His Troubadors | |
| 2579 | Foys for Joys | © July 1, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); Eddie Foy, Jr. & the Foy Family | |
| 2580 | Chips of the Old Block | July 1, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); Eddie Foy, Jr. & the Foy Family | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2581 | The Ham What Am | © June 30, 1928 | Jay C. Flippen | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2583 | Songalogue | © July 31, 1928 | Dolly Connolly & Percy Wenrich | |
| 2584 | Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors | July 15, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Gus Arnheim, Harry Robison & Russ Columbo | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2585 | Gus Arnheim and His Cocoanut Grove Orchestra | July 1928 | Gus Arnheim | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2586 | Cut Yourself a Piece of Cake | © June 30, 1928 | Val & Ernie Stanton | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2587 | English As She Is Not Spoken | © June 30, 1928 | Val & Ernie Stanton | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2588 | Terry and Jerry | © July 14, 1928 | Fields & Johnston | |
| 2589 | Don't Handle the Goods | © August 25, 1928 | Frank Browne & Kay LaVelle | |
| 2590 | Don't Be Jealous | © August 18, 1928 | Joe E. Brown with Harry Downing, Eugene Pallette & Patricia Caron | |
| 2591 | Winnie Lightner the Song a Minute Girl | June 30, 1928 | Winnie Lightner | |
| 2592 | Winnie Lightner Broadway's Favorite | June 30, 1928 | Winnie Lightner | |
| 2593 | The Arkansas Travelers | June 30, 1928 | Meyers & Hanford | |
| 2595 | Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs | © July 24, 1928 | Dick Rich, Cheri Rich (ventriloquist) | The Jazz Singer DVD & Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2596 | Joseph E. Howard, America's Popular Composer | © July 24, 1928 | Joseph E. Howard | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2597 | Bright Moments | © July 30, 1928 | Jack Benny & "Sayde" Marks (Mary Livingstone) | (very first Benny film may, unfortunately, be lost) |
| 2598 | Chief Caupolican, the Indian Baritone | © August 18, 1928 | Chief Caupolican | |
| 2599 | Thanksgiving Day | © August 18, 1928 | Harry Kelly, Cornelius Keefe, Harry Wardell & Walter Rodgers | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2600 | Miss Ann Grey and Her Boy Friends | © August 27, 1928 | Ann Grey | |
| 2607–2608 (two-reeler) | A Regular Business Man | © August 18, 1928 | Robert Ober with John Sainpolis (St. Polis), Margery Meadows and Lucille Beaumont | |
| 2609 | Homer Dickinson, Broadway's Smart (Musical) Comedy Star | © August 27, 1928 | Homer Dickinson | |
| 2610 | The Hi-Hatter | June 1928 | Jack Inglis | |
| 2620 | A Friend of Father's | © August 18, 1928 | Al Lydell & Bobby Higgins | |
| 2627 | Larry Ceballos' Roof Garden Revue | © November 14, 1928 | Larry Ceballos & the Adagio Dancers | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2628 | Joseph Regan, America's Foremost Irish Tenor | © December 8, 1928 | Joseph Regan | |
| 2629 | Here Comes the Bridesmaid | © March 12, 1929 | Janet Adair | |
| 2640 | The Aristocrats | © March 12, 1929 | Born & Lawrence | |
| 2648–2649 (two-reeler) | Ain't It the Truth: A Comedy in Manners | © March 9, 1929 | William B. Davidson, Grace Valentine, Dot Farley & Patricia Caron | |
| 2650 | A Musicale Melange | © March 12, 1929 | Kjerulf's Mayfair Quintette (Barbara Kjerulf, Myra Dennis, Gladys Hubmer & Ida Schultz) | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2659 | The Broadway Minstrel | © January 28, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Sam Coslow & June Clyde | |
| 2660 | How's Your Stock? | © September 22, 1928 | Murray Roth & Bryan Foy (directors); Charlie Sellon | |
| 2661 | Larry Ceballos' Undersea Revue | September 2, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Larry Ceballos, Jimmy Clemons & Lyda Roberti | |
| 2662 | Types | August 19, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Karyl Norman | |
| 2663 | Silks and Satins | © August 20, 1928 | Karyl Norman with Bob Hammill | |
| 2664–2665 (two-reeler) | Across the Border | © August 27, 1928 | Sarah Padden, Frank Campeau & Roy Stewart | |
| 2666–2667 (two-reeler) | Sharp Tools | October 7, 1928 | Willard Mack (director); Ethel Grey Terry, William B. Davidson & others | |
| 2668 | A Bit of Scotch | © August 27, 1928 | Kitty Doner | |
| 2669 | A Famous Male Impersonator | September 5, 1928 | Kitty Doner | |
| 2670 | Archie Gottler, His Songs are Sung in a Million Homes | © August 27, 1928 | Archie Gottler, Babe Glick & Peggy Rollins | |
| 2677–2678 (two-reeler) | The Alibi | June 1928 | Kenneth Harlan | |
| 2679 | Dank You | © September 12, 1928 | Joe Burns & Murray Kissen | |
| 2680 | Vitaphone Community Singing #3 | © August 27, 1928 | Lynn Cowan | |
| 2685 | Just Crooning Along | © September 5, 1928 | The Croonaders | |
| 2686 | The Beau Brummels | © September 22, 1928 | Al Shaw & Sam Lee | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2687 | The Reward | July 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); Louis Bennison | |
| 2689 | I Thank You | © September 12, 1928 | Eddie White | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2691 | A Breath of Broadway | © September 5, 1928 | Jack Waldron | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2692 | Melody Lane | July 1928 | The Dennis Sisters | |
| 2693 | Larry Ceballos' Crystal Cave Revue | November 18, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Larry Ceballos | |
| 2694 | A Rope and a Story | © October 18, 1928 | Tex McLeod | |
| 2695 | The Northern Patrol | © November 6, 1928 | Mounted Police Quartette | |
| 2696 | Chaz Chase, the Unique Comedian | © October 18, 1928 | Chaz Chase | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2697 | A Singing Act | September 2, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Bell & Coates | |
| 2698 | Horses | July 1928 | Benny Rubin | |
| 2699 | A Cycle of Songs | September 2, 1928 | Florence Brady | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2700 | Feminine Types | © December 8, 1928 | Jean Barrios | |
| 2702 | De La Plaza and Juanita with Their Spanish Serenaders | © December 13, 1928 | De La Plaza, Juanita, Alma Real, Royale Filipino Band | |
| 2703 | Small Town Rambles | January 27, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Al Abbott | |
| 2704 | A Family Affair | © January 28, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Arthur Byron with Kate, Eileen & Kathryn Byron | |
| 2705 | Irene Franklin, the American Comedienne | © January 14, 1929 | Irene Franklin & Jerry Jarnagin | |
| 2707 | Songs and Things | © January 28, 1929 | Jack Norworth | |
| 2708 | Give Us a Lift | © December 13, 1928 | Bryan Foy (director); Flo Lewis & Leo Karlyn | |
| 2709 | 42nd Street ("Zweiundvierzigste Strasse") | January 19, 1929 | Frank Orth & Ann Codee | German and French version of AFTER THE HONEYMOON (qv) |
| 2710 | After the Honeymoon | January 19, 1929 | Frank Orth & Ann Codee | |
| 2730 | Jesse Stafford Orchestra, World Famous Musician | October 28, 1928 | Jesse Stafford, the Lucas Brothers | |
| 2731 | The Bad, Bad Woman | © October 18, 1928 | Dora Maughan & Walter Fehl | |
| 2732 | Song Impressions | © October 18, 1928 | Dora Maughan & Walter Fehl | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2733 | Donald Brian, America's Foremost Musical Comedy Star | © February 9, 1929 | Donald Brian | |
| 2734 | Character Studies | September 2, 1928 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Florence Brady | |
| 2735 | A Breeze from the South | © December 1, 1928 | Gilbert Wells | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2736 | Melodious Moments | © October 18, 1928 | The Croonaders | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2737 | Idle Chatter | © December 1, 1928 | Kramer & Boyle | |
| 2739 | Popular Songs | © November 28, 1928 | Anna Chandler | |
| 2741 | Songs and Impressions | August 1928 | Mary Marlowe & Jordan | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2743 | Number Please | August 1928 | Ruth Warren | |
| 2744 | The Gatling Gun | August 1928 | Bert Hanlon | |
| 2745 | The Song Bird | © December 1, 1928 | Stewart Brady | |
| 2746 | Singin' the Blues | July 1928 | Jane Green & Ron Wilson | |
| 2747 | Bert Hanlon with Doris Canfield | August 1928 | Bert Hanlon & Doris Canfield | |
| 2748 | The Gyp | © December 8, 1928 | Fern Redmond & Herman Wells | |
| 2750 | The Melody Girl | July 1928 | Jane Green & Ron Wilson | |
| 2753 | Bedtime | © March 20, 1929 | Harry Hollingsworth & Nan Crawford | |
| 2754 | Spring Has Come | August 1928 | Pert Kelton | |
| 2755 | Two Black Aces (A Pair of Aces) | © December 8, 1928 | Slim Timblin & Billy Raymond | |
| 2756 | The Ban-Jokester | © November 24, 1928 | Jack North | |
| 2757 | Fair Days | © November 24, 1928 | Val Harris & Ann Howe | |
| 2758 | In Dutch | © December 1, 1928 | Ulis & Clarke | |
| 2759 | The Wild Westerner | © November 14, 1928 | Val Harris & Ann Howe | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2762 | The Beauty Shop | © December 1, 1928 | Mary Haynes | |
| 2763 | The Lady That's Known Lou | December 1, 1928 | Mary Haynes | |
| 2766 | Cross Words | © November 24, 1928 | Newhoff & Phelps | |
| 2767 | Sing, Sister, Sing | September 1928 | Hazel Kennedy | |
| 2768 | Neighbors | © December 8, 1928 | Jack Baxley & Babette Wilson | |
| 2769 | I'm Afraid That's All | © December 8, 1928 | Red Corcoran | |
| 2770 | A Little Conversation | September 1928 | Bert Hanlon & Doris Canfield | |
| 2783 | Songs As You Like Them | © December 8, 1928 | Irene Stone & Esther Larette | |
| 2784 | A Group of Songs | © November 24, 1928 | Jay Velie | |
| 2785 | A Little Bit of This and That | (never released) | Frank Shaw | |
| 2786 | King and Boles | October 1928 | ||
| 2788 | Not for Me | October 1928 | Murray Roth (director); Miss Juliet | |
| 2789 | Al Lyons and His Four Horsemen (aka "My Musical Melange") | © January 28, 1929 | Al Lyons, Jack Beardsley, D.M. Taylor, Neal Castagnoli & Edith Murray | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2790 | Jan Rubini "The Violin Virtuoso" with Vernon Rickard | January 27, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Jan Rubini | |
| 2791 | My Bag O' Trix | © January 14, 1929 | Trixie Friganza | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 2793 | Army Days | November 1928 | Murray Roth (director); Lieutenant Clifford Carling | |
| 2795 | An Everyday Occurrence | © May 27, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Wilbur Mack & Gertrude Purdy | |
| 2796 | Here Comes the Show Boat | © April 6, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Dave Bernie's Orchestra | |
| 2797 | Dave Bernie's Orchestra | © April 20, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Dave Bernie | |
| 2798 | Stranded in Paris | © March 12, 1929 | Ann Codee & Frank Orth | |
| 2800 | What Price Burlesque? | November 1928 | Murray Roth (director); Sammy Cohen | |
| 2814 | Red Hot Harmony | © March 12, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); The Serenaders | |
| 2815 | The Sunshine Girl | © March 12, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Hope Vernon | |
| 2816 | The Land of Harmony | © February 9, 1929 | The Plantation Trio | |
| 2817 | Who Is She? | November 1928 | Murray Roth (director); Joseph Bernard | |
| 2819 | Roy Fox, the Whispering Cornetist | © March 12, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Roy Fox & His Montmarte Café Orchestra | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2820 | The Gladiator | November 1928 | Murray Roth (director); Jimmy Conlin & Myrtle Glass | |
| 2837 | The Fall Guy | © May 12, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Ray Hughes & Pam | |
| 2838 | Syncopated Breezes | © March 12, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Bobby Gillette & Doris Walker | |
| 2839 | A Modern Priscilla | March 10, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Bobby Folsom | |
| 2840 | The Picadilly | November 1928 | Murray Roth (director); William DuCalion | |
| 2849–2850 (two-reeler) | Gossip | March 31, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Bryan Foy (director); Robert Emmet Keane, John Milijan & Claire Whitney | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2868 | The Night Club Favorite | © March 9, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Joe E. Lewis | |
| 2869 | Flaming Youth | © March 7, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Little Billy | |
| 2870 | Artistic Mimicry | © March 20, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Bruce Bowers | |
| 2883 | The Paragons in the Tropics | March 10, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Doc Salomon (director); The Paragons & Doris Walker | |
| 2885 | The Country Gentlemen | © January 28, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Jack Born & Elmer Lawrence | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2888 | Headin' South | © April 6, 1929 | The Three Brox Sisters | |
| 2889 | Tin Pan Alley | © January 28, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Dave Dreyer & Nora Schiller | |
| 2899 | Harmony As You Like It | December 1928 | Doc Salomon (director); Bert Rome & Henry Dunn | |
| 2900 | After the Roundup | December 1928 | Doc Salomon (director); The Rangers | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2910 | The Champion Golfer | © March 16, 1929 | Doc Salomon (director); Ben Bard & Bob Callahan | |
| 2919 | Ship Ahoy | © March 12, 1929 | Doc Salomon (director); Arthur "Pat" West, Sidney Dalbrock & Harris Gordon | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2920 | The Sideshow | © March 20, 1929 | Doc Salomon (director); Jack Born & Elmer Lawrence | |
| 2940 | Pigskin Troubles | © March 7, 1929 | Jack Born & Elmer Lawrence | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 2968 | Guido Deiro, World's Foremost Piano-Accordionist | © March 20, 1929 | Guido Diero | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 702 (NYC) | Eddie Lambert, America's Foremost Concert Pianist | © January 28, 1929 | Eddie Lambert | |
| 703 (NYC) | Frank Whitman, the Surprising Fiddler | © January 22, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Frank Whitman | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 704 (NYC) | Jack Goldie, the Ace of Spades | © January 28, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Jack Goldie |
1929
[edit]Filmed in 1929 in Hollywood (LA) and Brooklyn (NYC).
| # | Title | Release, copyright or review date | Performers (and credited director) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (NYC) | Jan Gerber & His Little Club Orchestra | January 1929 | Jan Gerber | |
| 2570 (NYC) | Glorifying the Popular Song | © October 29, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Ruth Etting | |
| 2575 (NYC) | John Miller and James Mack, the Bing Boys | January 1929 | John Miller & James Mack | |
| 2590 (NYC) | Joe E. Brown Personal Appearance Trailer | May 1929 | Joe E. Brown | |
| 451 (NYC) | Madame Frances Alda | © August 30, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Frances Alda | |
| 705 (NYC) | Lerdo's Mexican Orchestra | © March 19, 1929 | ||
| 706 (NYC) | Tajado's Tipica Orchestra | © March 20, 1929 | ||
| 707 (NYC) | Mexican Tipica Orchestra | © February 15, 1929 | ||
| 708 (NYC) | Back from Abroad | © March 9, 1929 | McKay & Ardine | |
| 709 (NYC) | Sol Violinsky, the Eccentric Entertainer | © September 28, 1929 | Sol Violinsky | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 710 (NYC) | Green's Twentieth Century Faydetts | © March 20, 1929 | Charles Green, Nina Grey | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 711 (NYC) | Green's Flapperettes | © March 7, 1929 | ||
| 712 (NYC) | Songs As You Like Them | © February 25, 1929 | Jim & Betty Morgan | |
| 713 (NYC) | Frances Shelley, the Girl with the Guitar | © February 15, 1929 | Frances Shelley | |
| 714 (NYC) | A Few Absurd Moments | © March 12, 1929 | Stanley & Ginger | |
| 715 (NYC) | The Original Hillbillies | © March 7, 1929 | The "North Carolina Jazz Band" featuring Al Hopkins | |
| 716 (NYC) | Miss Marcelle Singing Southern Syncopated Songs | © March 20, 1929 | Miss Marcelle | |
| 717 (NYC) | A Journey of Songs | © March 19, 1929 | Jay Velie | |
| 718 (NYC) | Songs of Love | © March 7, 1929 | Jay Velie | |
| 719 (NYC) | Blondes That Gentlemen Prefer | February 24, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Neal Sisters | |
| 720 (NYC) | The Corner Store | © March 20, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Fred Ardath | |
| 721 (NYC) | Fannie Ward the Miracle Woman | March 24, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Fannie Ward | |
| 722-723 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Music Makers | April 7, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Willie and Eugene Howard | |
| 724 (NYC) | A Bad Boy from a Good Family | © March 12, 1929 | Phil Baker | |
| 725 (NYC) | In Spain | © March 12, 1929 | Phil Baker | |
| 726 (NYC) | Mirth and Melody | © March 7, 1929 | Dorothy & Rosetta Ryan | |
| 727 (NYC) | Frank Crumit, the One Man Glee Club | © March 19, 1929 | Frank Crumit | |
| 728 (NYC) | Stella Mayhew, the Hallelujah Lady | © March 20, 1929 | Stella Mayhew | |
| 729 (NYC) | Mal Hallett and His Entertaining Orchestra | March 3, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Mal Hallet & Orchestra | |
| 730 (NYC) | Mal Hallett and His Way Down East Band | July 28, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Mal Hallet & Orchestra | |
| 731 (NYC) | Musical Moments | © March 19, 1929 | The Four Synco-Pets | |
| 732 (NYC) | Tal Henry and His North Carolinians | © April 10, 1929 | Tal Henry | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 733 (NYC) | Words of Love | © March 20, 1929 | Julia Sanderson & Frank Crumit | |
| 734 (NYC) | A Traffic Muddle | © April 30, 1929 | Red Donahue & U-No the Mule | |
| 735 (NYC) | June, the English Musical Comedy Star, with John Hundley | © March 19, 1929 | ||
| 736 (NYC) | Paul Cunningham and Florence Bennett, the Popular Singing Composers | © March 20, 1929 | Paul Cunningham & Florence Bennett | |
| 739 (NYC) | Grace La Rue, the International Star of Song | © April 30, 1929 | Grace La Rue | |
| 740 (NYC) | Hope Hampton (in the First Act of Manon) | March 31, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Hope Hampton | |
| 741 (NYC) | Song Sayings | © April 10, 1929 | George Whiting & Sadie Burt with Edmund Weber (piano) | |
| 742 (NYC) | Paul Tremaine & His Aristocrats | March 31, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Paul Tremaine and His Jazz Band | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 743-744 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Squarer | February 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); J.C. Nugent with Natalie Shafer & Percy Helton | |
| 745 (NYC) | Max Schmeling, Heavyweight Champion of Germany | © April 10, 1929 | Max Schmeling | |
| 746 (NYC) | Eleanor Painter, the Lyric Soprano | March 31, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Eleanor Painter | |
| 747, 748 & 749 (NYC) | Isa Kremer | © April 9, 1929 | Isa Kremer | (three similar titled film shorts released separately) |
| 750-751 (NYC, two-reeler) | My People | © July 22, 1929 | Willie and Eugene Howard | |
| 752 (NYC) | Bernie Cummins and His Biltmore Orchestra | © April 10, 1929 | Bernie Cummins | |
| 753 (NYC) | At the Seashore | © May 4, 1929 | Ethel Sinclair & Marge LaMarr | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 754-755 (NYC, two-reeler) | Motoring | © July 22, 1929 | Harry Tate | |
| 757 (NYC) | A Bird in the Hand | © April 30, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Ann Codee & Frank Orth | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 758 (NYC) | Americanische Lieder | March 1929 | Ann Codee | |
| 759 (NYC) | Ann Codee dans "Des Melodies Americainers" | March 1929 | Ann Codee | |
| 760 (NYC) | Evening At Home with Hitchy | © April 17, 1929 | Raymond Hitchcock | |
| 761-762 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Man Who Laughed Last | © September 7, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Sessue Hayakawa | |
| 763 (NYC) | Harry Horlick and His A&P Gypsies | April 7, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Accompanied by Frank Parker & Valerie Bergere | |
| 764-765 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Woman Tamer | March 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); J.C. Nugent with Natalie Schaefer & Percy Helton | |
| 766 (NYC) | Clarence Tisdale, Southland's Spiritual Tenor (Old-Time Songs) | © May 12, 1929 | Clarence Tisdale | |
| 767 (NYC) | The Patent Office | © June 29, 1929 | Harry Tate | |
| 769 (NYC) | Playmates | © April 30, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Arthur & Morton Havel with Dora Mills Adams & David Bender | |
| 770 (NYC) | Rhythms | © June 1, 1929 | Leo Reisman & His Hotel Brunswick Orchestra | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 771 (NYC) | Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees | Murray Roth (director); March 31, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Rudy Vallée | |
| 772-773 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Veteran | March 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); J.C. Nugent | |
| 774 (NYC) | Josie Heather, the Character Comedienne | © May 12, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Josie Heather | |
| 775 (NYC) | Fresh from Hollywood | © May 12, 1929 | Jimmy Duffy & Helen Gleason | |
| 776 (NYC) | The Ninety-Ninth Amendment | © May 18, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Hugh O’Connell, Charles Richman & Verree Teasdale | |
| 777 (NYC) | Irene Franklin, the American Comedienne | May 12, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Irene Franklin & Jerry Jarnagin | |
| 778 (NYC) | Selling a Car | © July 23, 1929 | Harry Tate | |
| 780 (NYC) | Three O'Clock in the Morning | © May 27, 1929 | George Broadhurst & Co. (Harold Bolton, Eleanor Cody & Phil Raymond) | |
| 781 (NYC) | Eva Shirley and Her Versatile Band | April 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Eva Shirley, Gil Lamb, Ray Block, Willie Fratkin & the Two Sammys | |
| 782 (NYC) | The Outlaw In-Law | © August 7, 1929 | Bryan Foy & Murray Roth (directors); Hobart Cavanaugh & Mary Loane | |
| 783 (NYC) | At the Party | © June 12, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Bud Harris & Frank Radcliffe | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 784 (NYC) | Pageant of the Lilliputians | June 9, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Bryan Foy (director); Tiny Town Revue with Buster Shaver | |
| 785 (NYC) | The Singing Bee | © May 27, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Fred Ardath with Klar Magnus, Claude Allen & Audrey St. Claire | |
| 786 (NYC) | These Dry Days | © August 30, 1929 | Fred Ardath | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 787 (NYC) | Odds and Ends | © May 27, 1929 | Mr. & Mrs. Jack Norworth | |
| 788 (NYC) | Typical Types | © June 1, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Bobby Folsom | |
| 789 (NYC) | Beau Night | © June 12, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); El Brendel & Flo Bert | |
| 790 (NYC) | The Family Ford | May 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Jim Harkins with Marian Harkins, Hope Eden, Harry Lester and Marie Dolan | |
| 791 (NYC) | Jack White with the Montrealers | © May 27, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Jack White, Mary Lee, Billie Lee & Ruth Petty | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 792 (NYC) | Cecilia Leftus in Her Famous Impersonations | © May 27, 1929 | Cecilia Leftus | |
| 793 (NYC) | Don Alberto y su Orquestra Argentina | April 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Don Alberto, Genaro Viega (singer), Epaim Suares (on violin) & Celestino Bianchi (on accordion) | |
| 794 (NYC) | Palm Beach Four "Favorite Nightclub Quartette" | © May 27, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); accompanied by Charles Anderson, Joseph Markese, Harry Hill & Al Perry | |
| 795 (NYC) | The Blue Ridgers with Cordelia Mayberry | © June 12, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Sam Morley, Jim & Pete Holy, Dan & Cordelia Mayberry | |
| 796 (NYC) | Roy Sedley and His Night Club Revue | © June 1, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); accompanied by Berth Miller & Billy Smith | |
| 797 (NYC) | Albert Spalding Playing "Ave Maria" by Shubert & "Waltz in A" by Brahms | © September 7, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Albert Spalding (violinist) & André Benoist | |
| 798 (NYC) | Albert Spalding Playing "Minuet in B" by Mozart & "Liebesfreud" by Kreisler | © July 22, 1929 | Harold Levey (director); Albert Spalding (violinist) & André Benoist | |
| 799 (NYC) | Albert Spalding Playing Schumann's "Traumere" & Sarasate's "Romanza Andaluza" | © November 7, 1929 | Harold Levey (director); Albert Spalding (violinist) & André Benoist | |
| 800 (NYC) | Albert Spalding Playing Kreisler's "Liebeslied" & Raff's "Cavitina" | © September 7, 1929 | Harold Levey (director); Albert Spalding (violinist) & André Benoist | |
| 801 (NYC) | Albert Spalding Playing Alabama & Chopin's "Valse in G Flat" | © June 12, 1929 | Harold Levey (director); Albert Spalding (violinist) & André Benoist | |
| 802 (NYC) | Albert Spalding | © November 7, 1929 | Albert Spalding (violinist) & André Benoinst (piano) | |
| 803 (NYC) | Sympathy | © August 30, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Hobart Cavanaugh, Regina Wallace, Harry Shannon & others | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 804 (NYC) | The Varsity Three "Blue Streaks of Rhythm" | © June 12, 1929 | Harold Levey (director); Jack Hauser, Robert Hauser & pianist Jack Bloom | |
| 806 (NYC) | Blanche Ring | April 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Blanche Ring, Charles Rand & Cyril Ring | |
| 807 (NYC) | The Familiar Face | June 9, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Russel Crouse (story); Hugh O’Connell with Granville Bates, Frank Rowan & William Shelley | |
| 808 (NYC) | Jeanne Gordon, the Celebrated Mezzo Soprano | May 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Jeanne Gordon | |
| 809 (NYC) | Baby Rose Marie, the Child Wonder | © June 12, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Rose Marie | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 810 (NYC) | Oklahoma Bob Albright & His Rodeo Do Flappers | © June 12, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Bob Albright | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 811 (NYC) | The Gay Nineties or, the Unfaithful Husband | © July 22, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Larry Bolton, Lenita Lane, Elizabeth Patterson, Sidney Toler & Eunice Howard | |
| 812 (NYC) | The Dinner Party | May 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Stanley Ridges, Florence Vernon & Daisy Atherton | |
| 813 (NYC) | High Water, A Song Poem of the Southland | June 9, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Guy Robertson with Marsh McGurdy (piano) | |
| 815 (NYC) | Charles C. Peterson - Billiard Champion of Fancy Shots | © August 30, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Charles C. Peterson | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 816 (NYC) | He's a Devil | © June 29, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Roy & Dot Dean | |
| 817 (NYC) | Kate Smith, Songbird of the South | © June 29, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Kate Smith | |
| 818 (NYC) | The All Girl Revue | June 9, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Betty Lou Webb, Lillian Price, Jean Rankin's Bluebells, the Malenoff Trio, Terry Green, Ellen Bunting, DePaco & Kazviki | |
| 819 (NYC) | The Man About Town | © July 22, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Frank X. Silk with Fred Sumner | |
| 820-821 (NYC) | Small Timers | © October 14, 1929 | Bert Wheeler with Bernice Speer & Al Clair | |
| 822 (NYC) | John Steel, the Musical Comedy Star | May 1929 | Murray Roth (director); John Steel, Allen Parade (piano) | |
| 823 (NYC) | Segar Ellis and His Embassy Club Orchestra | © July 31, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Seger Ellis | |
| 824 (NYC) | Dooley's the Name | © July 31, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Francis Dooley & Corinne Sales | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 825 (NYC) | Cora Green, the Famous Creole Singer | © August 20, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Cora Green, pianist Isadore Myer | |
| 826 (NYC) | Mel Klee, the Prince of Wails | © August 30, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Mel Klee | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 827 (NYC) | Harlem-Mania | © July 22, 1929 | Murray Roth (director);The Norman Thomas Quintette, Earl Shanks, Stanley Brown, Alphonse Kennedy & Freddie Crump (on drums) | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 828 (NYC) | Harry Fox & His Six American Beauties | © July 22, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Harry Fox | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 829 (NYC) | The Bee & the Fox | © July 23, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Harry Fox & Bea Curtis | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 831 (NYC) | Alexander Moissi, Europe's Greatest Actor | (not released?) | Arthur Hurley (director); Alexander Moissi | |
| 832 (NYC) | The Gotham Rhythm Boys | © September 28, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Eddie Lewis, Tom Miller & Lou Monte | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 833 (NYC) | You Don't Know the Half of It | © December 9, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Jay Brennan & Ann Butler | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 834 (NYC) | The Opry House | © August 20, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Doris Walker & the Mound City Blue Blowers (Lou Hearn, William McKenzie, Frank Billings, Jack Bland & Carl Kress) | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 835 (NYC) | Hilda | © August 20, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Billy "Swede" Hall & Co. | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 836 (NYC) | Harry Rosenthal and His Bath and Tennis Club Orchestra | © August 20, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Harry Rosenthal, Jean Ackerman, Hazel Forbes, Myra Darby, Evelyn Groves, Mary Mulhern, Mildred LeGay, Gen Pearson, Murray Smith, Dare & Belmonte, Cornell Smelser & Jack Scheer | |
| 837 (NYC) | Reva Reyes, the Piquant Senorita | June 1929 | Murray Roth (director); accompanied by Guillermo Plaza (piano) | |
| 838 (NYC) | The Interview | © August 30, 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Russel Crouse (story); Hugh O’Connell with Granville Bates & Don Dilloway | |
| 839 (NYC) | Just Like a Man | © August 30, 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); John Hobble | |
| 840 (NYC) | The Big Paraders | © August 20, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Charlotte Conrad, Tiny & Jack Waites, Elsie Thiel, Edna Howard & Ben Wise | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 841 (NYC) | Don't Get Nervous | July 28, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Bryan Foy (director); Georgie Price | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 842 (NYC) | James J. Corbett and Neil O'Brien | © August 9, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); James J. Corbett, Neil O'Brien | |
| 843 (NYC) | You Tell 'em, I Stutter | released? | Murray Roth (director); Harry Savoy & Ruth Mann | |
| 844 (NYC) | Jack White and His Chateau Madrid Club Entertainers | © August 20, 1929 | Jack White & Jeanne Fayal | |
| 845 (NYC) | Joe College (Two College Nuts) | © August 20, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Billy Edison & Charlie Gregory | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 846 (NYC) | Frances Shelley and the Four Eton Boys | July 28, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Frances Shelley, Charlie & Jack Day, Eddie Murray & Earl Smith | |
| 847 (NYC) | Rarin' to Go | © August 20, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Jack Kraft & Elsie Lamont | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 848 (NYC) | Carolina Segrera "The Cuban Nightingale" with Don Alberto and His Argentines | July 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Carolina Segrera, Don Alberto, Gennaro Viega, Epaim Suarez & Celestino Bianchi | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 849 (NYC) | Satires | © September 7, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); John T. Murray & Vivien Oakland | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 850 (NYC) | Moving Day | © November 7, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Frank Hunter, Mae Percival & Charles Wesson | |
| 861 (NYC) | Marching Home with Douglas Stanbury and His Veterans | August 18, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Edward DuParr (camera); Douglas Stanbury | |
| 862 (NYC) | They Know Their Groceries | August 30, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Flournoy Miller & Aubrey Lyles with Vivienne Baber, Onion Jeffrey, Paul Floyd & Oswald Lyles | |
| 863 (NYC) | Nan Halperin, America's Famous Satirist | © September 7, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Nan Halperin | |
| 864 (NYC) | Carlena Diamond, Harpist Supreme | © September 7, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Carlena Diamond | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 865 (NYC) | Those Were the Days | © November 7, 1929 | Irene Franklin | |
| 866 (NYC) | Fishing Around | © September 28, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Howard Anderson, Rean? Graves & Cole Carroll | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 867 (NYC) | Before the Bar | © September 7, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Frank Hurst & Eddie Vogt | |
| 869 (NYC) | Grace Johnston and The Indiana Five | © September 7, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Grace Johnston | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 870 (NYC) | Red Nichols and His Five Pennies | © September 16, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Red Nichols with Eddie Condon | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 871 (NYC) | Diamond Til | September 1, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Grace Hayes & Neville Fleeson | |
| 872 (NYC) | Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra | © September 14, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Ben Pollack | |
| 873 (NYC) | Somewhere in Jersey | © September 28, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); William Halligan & Mary Mulhern | |
| 874 (NYC) | Coletta Ryan and Duke Yellman (aka "Songology") | © September 14, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Coletta Ryan & Duke Yellman | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 875 (NYC) | Dave Apollon and His Russian Stars | © September 7, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Dave Apollon | |
| 876 (NYC) | Guido Ciccolini and Eric Zardo | © September 28, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Guido Ciccolini, Eric Zardo & Joan Ruth | |
| 878 (NYC) | The Kiddie Cabaret | © October 14, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Sybil Lee, Peggy & Dorothy Delight, Buddy Reed, Lenora Bohen, Glauco D'Attilli & Yukona Cameron | |
| 879 (NYC) | Harlem Knights | © December 9, 1929 | Flournoy Miller & Aubrey Lyles | |
| 880 (NYC) | Sending a Wire | © September 28, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Eddie Green with Jimmy Baskett & Noma Davis | |
| 881 (NYC) | The One Man Quartette | © November 7, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Eddie Miller | |
| 882 (NYC) | Moments in Mimicry | © October 14, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Roger Williams | |
| 883 (NYC) | Just Dumb | © October 14, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Nelson B. Clifford & Marie Marion | |
| 884 (NYC) | Shake It Up | © November 7, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Eddie Moran, Beth Challis & Their Cheerful Steppers | |
| 885 (NYC) | Music Hath Charms | © October 14, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Frank Orth & Ann Codee with Florence Vernon | |
| 886 (NYC) | Des Nouvelles Chansons Americaines | August 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Ann Codee & Frank Orth | |
| 887 (NYC) | Meine Frau | August 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Ann Codee & Frank Orth with Walter Dreher | |
| 888 (NYC) | A Tete-a-Tete in Songs | © October 14, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); James Burke & Eleanor Durkin | |
| 889 (NYC) | The Hall of Injustice | © October 14, 1929 | John T. Murray & Vivien Oakland | |
| 890 (NYC) | Charles Hackett Singing "I Looked Into Your Garden" & "I Heard You Singing" | September 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Charles Hackett | |
| 891 (NYC) | Lambchops | October 14, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); George Burns & Gracie Allen | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 892 (NYC) | Josef Kallini "Foremost Tenor of the Manhattan Opera House" | August 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Josef Kallini, Aaron Pressman | |
| 893 (NYC) | Josef Kallini (#893) | August 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Josef Kallini | |
| 894 (NYC) | Ruth Etting, the Sweetheart of Columbia Records, Glorifying the Popular Song | October 9, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Ruth Etting, Victor Arden & Phil Ohman | |
| 895 (NYC) | Dead or Alive | © December 10, 1929 | Arthur Hurley; story: Russel Crouse; Hugh O’Connell with Granville Bates & William Shelley | |
| 896 (NYC) | A Night on the Bowery | October 20, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Will Aubrey | |
| 897-898 (NYC, two-reeler) | In the Nick of Time | © December 31, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Sidney Toler with Lucy Beaumont, Bert Wilson & Dorothy Hall | |
| 899-900 (NYC, two-reeler) | Charles Hackett in "Faust" assisted by Chase Borromeo | December 8, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Charles Hackett | |
| 901 (NYC) | Two Good Boys Gone Wrong | © October 29, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Jans & Whalen | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 902 (NYC) | Horace Heidt & His Californians | © October 28, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Horace Heidt, Lee Lykins (vocalist) | |
| 903 (NYC) | Fred Allen's Prize Playlets | © November 25, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Fred Allen | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 904-905 (NYC) | Faint Heart | © December 21, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Bert Lahr with Bobbe Arnst, Harry Shannon & Malcolm Duncan | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 906 (NYC) | Chistes y Lasses | September 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Tex McLeod & Marjorie Tiller | |
| 907 (NYC) | Illusions | © November 25, 1929 | Murray Roth (director?); Fred Keaton | |
| 908 (NYC) | Horace Heidt & His Californians | February 2, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Horace Heidt | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 909 (NYC) | A Glimpse of the Stars | © December 21, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Paula Trueman | |
| 910 (NYC) | The Fallen Star | © November 29, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); George Rosener | |
| 911 (NYC) | Marie Vero | September 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Marie Veno, Helen Whitaker (piano) | |
| 912 (NYC) | A Song Drama | © December 9, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Charles Derickson & Burton Brown | |
| 913 (NYC) | Rhythms in Blue | © November 29, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Bobbe Arnst & Peggy Ellis | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 914 (NYC) | Low-down, a Bird's Eye View of Harlem | © December 21, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Monette Moore, Gertie Chambers, Mary Burnes & Washboard Serenaders | |
| 915 (NYC) | Who's Who | © November 25, 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Harry Lang & Bernice Healy | |
| 916 (NYC) | Charles Hackett Singing "Il Mio Tesoro Instanto" & "O Paradiso" | November 25, 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Charles Hackett | |
| 917 (NYC) | Molly Picon, the Celebrated Character Comedienne | © December 21, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Molly Picon | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 918 (NYC) | Pack Up Your Troubles | October 20, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Douglas Stanbury & the Lyric Quartette with Jack Burns | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 919 (NYC) | Little Miss Everybody | November 24, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Zelda Santley | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 920 (NYC) | Apartment Hunting | © November 29, 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); George Fisher & Honey Hurst | |
| 921-922 (NYC, two-reeler) | Room 909 | November 3, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Edward DuParr (camera); Robert Emmet Keane & Claire Whitney | |
| 923 (NYC) | The Midnight Lodge | © January 15, 1930 | Flournoy Miller & Aubrey Lyles | |
| 924 (NYC) | For Goodness Sake! | October 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Sidney Marion & Adele Jason | |
| 925 (NYC) | Bigger and Better | © December 23, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Fanny & Kitty Watson | |
| 926-927 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Under Dog | © January 15, 1930 | Fred Allen (writer); James Barton | |
| 928 (NYC) | Crinoline Classics | © December 23, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Helen Yorke & Virginia Johnson | |
| 929 (NYC) | Some Pumpkins | © December 21, 1929 | Murray Roth (director); Sam Summers & Estelle Hunt | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 930-931 (NYC, two-reeler) | Hello Thar! | © January 13, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Eddie Buzzell | |
| 932 (NYC) | Giovanni Martinelli and Livia Maracci | December 15, 1929 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Giovanni Martinelli | |
| 933 (NYC) | Herschel Henlere, the Madcap Musician | © January 18, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Herschel Henlere | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 934 (NYC) | The Letter Box | © December 31, 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Sybil Lee, Burke Clark, Harold Kennedy & others | |
| 935 (NYC) | Impressions | © January 25, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Albert Carroll | |
| 936 (NYC) | The Musicale | © January 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Al Trahan with Yukona Cameron & Helen Hawley | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 937 (NYC) | Then and Now | © January 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Billy & Elsa Newell | |
| 938 (NYC) | Imagine My Embarrassment | © January 18, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Frank Orth & Ann Codee | A German version was also made (Vitaphone #942) |
| 939 (NYC) | The Benefit | February 2, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Joe Frisco | |
| 940 (NYC) | Rose Perfect, the Girl With the Golden Voice | © January 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); accompanied by Dudley Wilkinson (piano) | |
| 941 (NYC) | Jest for a While | © January 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Clara Barry & Orval Whitledge | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 943 (NYC) | Ave Maria | January 5, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Giovanni Martinelli & Frances Alda | |
| 944 (NYC) | Giovanni Martinelli Singing Arias from "Verdis Il Trovatore" | © January 18, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Giovanni Martinelli | |
| 945 (NYC) | Two of a Kind | © January 18, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Billy Lytell & Tom Fant | |
| 946 (NYC) | Oh Sarah! | © January 25, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Jack McLallen & Sarah Carson with Tony Labriola | |
| 947 (NYC) | The Operation | February 9, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy & Christina Graver | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 948 (NYC) | Une Chanson Mimee | December 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Ann Codee with Joe Cappo & Marion Lessing | |
| 949 (NYC) | Sound Effects | © February 17, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Buddy Traps | |
| 950 (NYC) | Talking It Over | © March 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Jack Osterman | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 951 (NYC) | A Perfect Understanding | © February 17, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Joe May & Dorothy Oaks | |
| 952 (NYC) | On the Rancho | © February 17, 1930 | Murray Roth & Arthur Hurley (directors); Will & Gladys Ahern with Ben Ahern | |
| 953 (NYC) | Giovanni Martinelli Singing "Céleste Aïda" | © December 21, 1929 | Arthur Hurley (director); Giovanni Martinelli | |
| 954 (NYC) | Idle Chatter | © March 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Lou Holtz | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 955 (NYC) | The Love Boat | © March 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Herman Timberg | |
| 956 (NYC) | Scotch Taffy | December 1929 | Edmund Joseph (director); Scott Sanders | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 957 (NYC) | Jane Dillon and Her Boy Friends | December 1929 | Edmund Joseph (director); Jane Dillon | |
| 958 (NYC) | Ben Bernie and His Orchestra | © May 16, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Ben Bernie, Clayton, Jackson & Jimmy Durante, Pat Kennedy & Frances McCoy | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 3 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 959 (NYC) | Ruth Breton, the Celebrated Violinist | © February 17, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Rith Breton, Rudolfo Noyos (vocalist) & "Miss" Baker (piano) | |
| 960 (NYC) | Broadway's Like That | © March 15, 1930 | Arthur Hurley & Murray Roth (directors); Ruth Etting, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart & Mary Philips | |
| 3636 (LA) | Stimulation | © December 31, 1929 | Johnny Arthur | |
| 3179–3180 (LA, two-reeler) | Finders Keepers | © November 25, 1929 | Bryan Foy & George Kelly (directors); Helen Ferguson, John Litel & Janet Adair | |
| 3190 (LA) | The Frame | © April 30, 1930 | William Boyd & Charles Middleton | |
| 3238–3239 (LA, two-reeler) | The Flattering Word | © November 25, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); George Kelly, Harrison Ford, Janet Adair, Blanche Frederici & John Litel | |
| 3280 (LA) | At the Church Festival | © November 25, 1929 | Wright & Louis? Silvers (directors); Dick Henderson | |
| 3289–3290 (LA, two-reeler) | All Square | © January 15, 1930 | ||
| 3300 (LA) | Head of the Family | © December 31, 1929 | Little Billy | |
| 3333 (LA) | The Dead Line | © November 25, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); David Callis, Blanche Friderici & Jimmy Phillips | |
| 3334 (LA) | Always Faithful | December 31, 1929 | George Middleton (director); Blanche Sweet, John Litel & others | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 3335 (LA) | For Sale | © November 25, 1929 | Bryan Foy (director); Gregory Ratoff | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 3413 (LA) | The Music Shop | © December 31, 1929 | Dick Henderson | |
| 3640 (LA) | The Barber Shop Chord | © November 25, 1929 | Martie Martel & others | |
| 3667 (LA) | White Lies | © December 31, 1929 | ||
| 3668 (LA) | The Window Cleaners | © April 7, 1930 | Neely Edwards & Lew Brice | |
| 3674–3675 (LA, 15 minutes) | Poor Aubrey | © January 30, 1930 | Franklin Pangborn, Helen Ferguson, Ruth Lyons & Clara Blandick | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 3676 (LA) | And Wife | © April 30, 1930 | William McCann (director); Frank Davis & Bernice Elliott | |
| 3679 (LA) | Revival Day | January 5, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director) & Tenny Wright (directors); Slim Timblin, Bobby Arnst & Peggy Ellis | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 3680 (LA) | The Maid's Night Out | © December 31, 1929 | Bobby Watson | |
| 3681 (LA) | More Sinned Against Than Usual | © January 30, 1930 | Howard Bretherton | |
| 3722 (LA) | Trifles | © January 30, 1930 | Jason Robards, Sr., Sarah Padden, Blanche Friderici & Frank Campeau | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 3740 (LA) | Christmas Knight | © April 30, 1930 | C.B. Platts (director); Bryant Washburn, Helen Jerome Eddy & Charles Middleton | |
| 3757 (LA) | Mechant Mais Gentil | December 1929 | Georges Carpentier | |
| 3759 (LA) | A Matter of Ethics | © February 17, 1930 | Howard Bretherton | |
| 3761 (LA) | Naughty But Nice | © March 30, 1930 | Georges Carpentier | |
| 3762 (LA) | The Stand Up | © February 17, 1930 | Wilbur Mack, Bobby Watson & Marjorie Lane | |
| 3780 (LA) | Vanity | © January 30, 1930 | Ruth Lyons, Rudolph Cameron & Vivien Oakland | |
| 3781 (LA) | The People Versus-- | © April 30, 1930 | Patrick H. O'Malley, Jr. & Frank Campeau | |
| 3816 (LA) | Jack Buchanan with the Glee Quartet | © February 17, 1930 | Jack Buchanan | The Band Wagon DVD & Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 3825 (LA) | Letters | © February 17, 1930 | John G. Adolfi (director); Pauline Garon, Natalie Moorhead, Kathryn Givney & William B. Davidson |
1930
[edit]Filmed in 1930 in Hollywood (LA) and Brooklyn (NYC).
| # | Title | Release, copyright or review date | Director & performers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3529 (LA) | Danger | © March 15, 1930 | Eddie Cline (director); John Litel, Frank Campeau & Charlotte Merriam | |
| 3686 (LA) | The New Racket | © June 11, 1930 | John G. Adolfi (director); Gardner James, James Bradbury Jr., Irene Homer & DeWitt Jennings | |
| 3758 (LA) | The Baby Bandit | © June 11, 1930 | Bobby Watson & Anne Cornwall | |
| 3778 (LA) | Niagara Falls | © January 30, 1930 | Bryant Washburn & Helen Jerome Eddy | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 3798 (LA) | The Pay Off | © March 19, 1930 | Harry B. Walthall, Barbara Leonard & Russell Hopton | |
| 3799 (LA) | Vengeance | February 9, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Archie Mayo (director); Warner Richmond, Natalie Moorhead & Gardner James | |
| 3800–3801 (LA, 12 minutes) | Getting a Raise | © February 17, 1930 | Bryan Foy (director); Lucien Littlefield, Mary Hutchinson & Billy Taft | The Potters series |
| 3827–3828 (LA, 18 minutes) | At Home | © March 15, 1930 | Bryan Foy (director); Lucien Littlefield | The Potters series |
| 3849 (LA) | What a Life | © March 15, 1930 | John G. Adolfi (director); William Irving, Lon Poff, Virginia Sale & others | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 3863 (LA) | Beatrice Lillie and Her Boyfriends | © May 15, 1930 | Beatrice Lillie | |
| 3864 (LA) | Honolulu | January 1930 | Noel Madison & Vera Marsh | |
| 3873 (LA) | Who Pays? | © April 30, 1930 | John T. Murray & Vivien Oakland | |
| 3881–3882 (LA, 17 minutes) | Done in Oil | © March 15, 1930 | Bryan Foy (director); Lucien Littlefield | The Potters series |
| 3883 (LA) | Surprise | © March 15, 1930 | Tom Dugan & Barbara Leonard | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 3900 (LA) | She Who Gets Slapped | © May 16, 1930 | Tom Dugan | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 3942–3943 (LA, two-reeler) | Reno or Bust | © April 7, 1930 | Howard Bretherton | |
| 3972 (LA) | Paper Hanging | © April 30, 1930 | Carter DeHaven & Herman Ruby | |
| 3983–3984 (LA, 18 minutes) | Pa Gets a Vacation | © May 15, 1930 | Bryan Foy (director); Lucien Littlefield | The Potters series |
| 3988 (LA) | Ducking Duty | © May 15, 1930 | Heinie Conklin & Phil Morgan | |
| 4009–4010 (LA, 14 minutes) | Big Money | May 4, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Bryan Foy (director); Lucien Littlefield | The Potters series |
| 4033 (LA) | The Eternal Triangle | © June 30, 1930 | Wyndham Standing, Lillian Rich & Armand Kaliz | |
| 4034 (LA) | Her Relatives | © June 11, 1930 | Neely Edwards | |
| 4035 (LA) | Bridal Night | September 14, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Johnny Arthur & Charlotte Merriam | |
| 4036 (LA) | Cry Baby | © June 30, 1930 | Bobby Vernon & Mary Treen | |
| 4093 (LA) | No Questions Asked (The Flaming Youth) | © June 11, 1930 | Little Billy & Jed Prouty | |
| 4097–4098 (LA, two-reeler) | An Ill Wind or No Mother To Guide Us | May 18, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Edna Hibbard, Theodore Lorch & Eddie Graham | |
| 4099–4100 (LA, 18 minutes) | Out For Game | © June 30, 1930 | Bryan Foy (director); Lucien Littlefield, Dot Farley & Del Henderson | The Potters series |
| 4122 (LA) | Road Knights | © June 11, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); George Reilly & Eddie Davis | |
| 4123 (LA) | The Body Slam | © June 11, 1930 | Eddie Lambert & William Irving | |
| 4139 (LA) | Won to Lose | August 31, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Eddie Lambert & William Irving | |
| 4140 (LA) | The Servant Problem | May 1930 | John T. Murray, Vivien Oakland & Mary Strauber | |
| 4149 (LA) | Gates of Happiness | May 1930 | Carl McBride (director); Arthur West with Ty Parvis, the Murray Sisters, 20th Century Steppers & Norman Spencer Singers | |
| 4150 (LA) | Russian Around | August 3, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Carl McBride (director); Orville Rennie, Arthur West & others | |
| 4160 (LA) | Ginsburg of Newburg | May 1930 | Eddie Lambert & William Irving | |
| 4162–4163 (LA, 22 minutes) | His Big Ambition | © June 30, 1930 | Bryan Foy (director); Lucien Littlefield & Lucille Ward | The Potters series |
| 4164 (LA) | I'll Fix It | May 1930 | Billy Kent & Alice Lake | |
| 4168 (LA) | Twixt Love and Duty | May 1930 | Esther Howard, Eddie Graham & others | |
| 4169 (LA) | Old Seidelburg | May 1930 | Carl McBride (director); Orville Rennie, Elsa Peterson, Gus Reed & Janet Gilmore | |
| 4200 (LA) | Dining Out | June 1930 | Alice Lake, Billy Kent & Ernest Wood | |
| 4209 (LA) | Railroad Follies | June 1930 | Gene Morgan, Clyde Hager & Violet Barlow | |
| 4210 (LA) | School Daze | August 31, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Carl McBride (director); Jack White, Ty Parvis & Jeanie Lang | |
| 4230 (LA) | The Big Deal | June 1930 | Harry Holman, Franklin Pangborn, Billy Gilbert, Gertrude Astor & Geneva Mitchell | |
| 4240 (LA) | Who's the Boss | November 2, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Slim Summerville (director); Franklin Pangborn & Esther Howard | |
| 4249 (LA) | The Woman Tamer | June 1930 | Billy Gilbert, Esther Howard, Roger Davis, Dot Farley & Gus Reed | |
| 4260 (LA) | The Doctor's Wife | November 30, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Franklin Pangborn, Billy Gilbert, Gertrude Astor & Geneva Mitchell | |
| 4270–4271 (LA, two-reeler) | The Legacy | August 31, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Carl McBride (director); Betty Compton | |
| 4284 (LA) | The Skin Game | July 1930 | Jack White, William Irving & Jack Duffy | |
| 4285 (LA) | Ship Ahoy | March 15, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Jack White, Clarence Nordstrom, Esther Howard & Hazel Sperling | |
| 4286 (LA) | The Victim | July 8, 1930 | Frank Orth & Esther Howard with Florence Vernon | |
| 4287 (LA) | The Salesman | August 1930 | Frank Orth & Florence Vernon | |
| 4393 (LA) | The Happy Hottentots | August 1930 | Bryan Foy & Herman Ruby (directors); Joe Frisco & Billy Gilbert | The Jazz Singer DVD |
| 961 (NYC) | Money, Money, Money | © March 15, 1930 | Edmund Joseph (director); Homer Mason & Marguerite Keeler | |
| 962 (NYC) | Wedding Belles | © March 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Lorraine Howard & Florence Newton | |
| 963-964 (NYC, two-reeler) | Keeping Company | April 6, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); Eddie Buzzell | |
| 965 (NYC) | Gym-Jams | © March 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Lewis Mayer | |
| 966 (NYC) | Seeing Sarah Off | © March 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Sylvia Clark | |
| 967 (NYC) | The Bubble Party | © April 30, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Frank Allworth, Janet Velie, Margaret Knight & Don Dilloway | |
| 968 (NYC) | Lobo "The Dog of Dogs" with Clarence Moore | © March 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director) | |
| 969 (NYC) | The Master Sweeper | © March 19, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Chester Conklin | |
| 970 (NYC) | Let's Elope! | © March 15, 1930 | Edmund Joseph (director); Betty & Jerry Browne | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 971 (NYC) | Pat Henning | January 1930 | ||
| 972 (NYC) | A Battery of Songs | © March 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Waite Hoyt & J. Fred Coots | |
| 973 (NYC) | Absent Minded | April 30, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Wallace Ford | |
| 974 (NYC) | Giovanni Martinelli in the Prison Scene of "Faust" | April 6, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Giovanni Martinelli | |
| 975-976 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Royal Fourflusher | May 18, 1930 | Eddie Buzzell | |
| 977 (NYC) | The Varsity Vamp | © April 30, 1930 | Edmund Joseph (director); Lionel "Mike" Ames | |
| 978 (NYC) | Find the Woman | © April 30, 1930 | Arthur Hurley & Russel Crouse (director/writers); Hugh O’Connell | |
| 979 (NYC) | Milton C. Work the International Bridge Authority | April 6, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Milton C. Work | |
| 980 (NYC) | Three Rounds of Love | © May 15, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director?); Jean Dixon, James Rennie & others | |
| 981 (NYC) | System | © June 9, 1930 | Dudley Clements, Evalyn Knapp, Allan Wood & Helen Goodhue | |
| 982 (NYC) | Yuna Baile De Fantancia | © April 30, 1930 | Paulo, Paquita & Chiquita | |
| 983 (NYC) | Taking Ways | © April 30, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Frank Orth & Ann Codee | |
| 984 (NYC) | A Russian Rhapsody | © April 30, 1930 | Edmund Joseph (director); A. Kuznetzoff & B. Nicolina | |
| 985 (NYC) | Footnotes | © April 30, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Margie Finley, William Carey, Oscar Grogan & the Page Sisters | |
| 986 | The No-Account | © April 30, 1930 | Edmund Joseph (director); Russell Hardie & Josephine Hutchinson | |
| 987 (NYC) | Nile Green | © May 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Helen Broderick & Lester Crawford | |
| 988 (NYC) | At Your Service | © April 30, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Jessie Royce Landis, William Halligan, George Blackwood & William Carey | |
| 989 (NYC) | Desert Thrills | © April 30, 1930 | Edwin Bartlett & others | |
| 990 (NYC) | The Head Man | © May 15, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Hugh O’Connell & Kitty Kelly with Francis Pierlot, Leroy Wade & Arthur Hartley | |
| 991 (NYC) | Rural Hospitality | February 1930 | Edmund Joseph (director); Russell Hardie & Marcelle Coreene | |
| 992 (NYC) | The Devil's Parade | © June 8, 1930 | George Hale (director); Sidney Toler, Joan Blondell, Gerald Smith & Jessie Busley | |
| 993 (NYC) | The Cheer Leader | © June 9, 1930 | Tom Douglas & Beatrice Blinn | |
| 994 (NYC) | Donde Estas Corazon | February 1930 | Luana Alcaniz | |
| 995 (NYC) | Taxi Talks (Taxi Tales) | © June 8, 1930 | Fred & Fanny Hatton (story); Mayo Method, Katharine Alexander, Roger Pryor, Evelyn Knapp (Evalyn Knapp) & Spencer Tracy | |
| 997 (NYC) | Babe Egan and Her Hollywood Redheads | February 1930 | Babe Egan | |
| 998 (NYC) | Websterian Students | © May 15, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Ben Ryan & Henrietta Lee | |
| 999 (NYC) | The Cave Club | © May 15, 1930 | Ethel Merman with Marjorie Leach, Frank Tinney & Ted Lewis | |
| 1000 (NYC) | Grand Uproar | © June 8, 1930 | Jim McWilliams | |
| 1001 (NYC) | Married | © June 8, 1930 | Helen Flint, Stanley Ridges & William Foran | |
| 1002 (NYC) | Office Steps | © May 15, 1930 | George Hale (director); Harry McNaughton, the Phelps Twins, Billy Reed, Lou Duthers, Jack Thompson & Gertrude McDonald | |
| 1003 (NYC) | The Strong Arm | March 1930 | Paul Harvey | |
| 1004 (NYC) | The Music Racket | © June 30, 1930 | Lee Morse, Leo Donnelly & June Clayworth | |
| 1006 (NYC) | The Fight | © June 9, 1930 | Ring Lardner (director); Harry McNaughton, Charles Lawrence & others | |
| 1007–1008 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Collegiate Model | © June 9, 1930 | Ona Munson, Harry Rosenthal & Roger Pryor | |
| 1009 (NYC) | Yamekraw | June 9, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); James Price Johnson (songwriter); Hugo Marianni & His Mediterraneans with Louise Cook, Margaret Sims & Jimmy Mordecai | Warner Bros. Big Band, Jazz & Swing Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1010 (NYC) | The Poor Fish | © June 8, 1930 | Hobart Cavanaugh, Natalie Schafer, Stanley Ridges & George Blackwood | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1011 (NYC) | Song Paintings | © June 9, 1930 | Ann Seymour | |
| 1012–1013 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Heart Breaker | © June 30, 1930 | Edmund Joseph (director); Eddie Foy, Jr., Joan Blondell & others | |
| 1014 | The Naggers | June 1, 1930 | Mr. & Mrs. Jack Norworth | |
| 1015–1016 (NYC, two-reeler) | Slick As Ever | © June 9, 1930 | Harry J. Conley | |
| 1017 (NYC) | 23-Skidoo | June 9, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Lew Fields | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1018 (NYC) | Fore | © June 30, 1930 | Wallace Ford, Lenita Lane & Val Sherry | |
| 1019–1020 (NYC, 22 minutes) | The Song Plugger | © June 8, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Joe Frisco with Josephine Williams, Leo Donnelly, Arthur Leonard, Milt Francis & the Wyn Talbert Orchestra | Vitaphone Varieties 1926-30 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1021 (NYC) | The Matinee Idle | September 14, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Henry Hull & James Dale | |
| 1022 (NYC) | Evolution | © June 11, 1930 | Bert Frank (film editor) | compilation documentary includes The Great Train Robbery (1903 film) |
| 1023 (NYC) | The Fowl Triangle | April 1930 | Alan Wood, Donna Pasdeloup & others | |
| 1024 (NYC) | Giovanni Martinelli | © January 5, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Giovanni Martinelli | |
| 1025 (NYC) | The Still Alarm | © June 30, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Fred Allen & Clifton Webb | |
| 1026 (NYC) | Thank You, Doctor | May 1930 | ||
| 1027 (NYC) | Going Places | © June 9, 1930 | Shaw & Lee | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1028 (NYC) | The Duel | June 1930 | Lew Fields with Verree Teasdale & Jean De Val | |
| 1029 (NYC) | A Tenement Tangle | June 30, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Ben Ryan & Henrietta Lee | |
| 1030 (NYC) | Strong and Willing | © June 30, 1930 | Neville Fleeson (writer); Trixie Friganza | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1031 (NYC) | Scotch Love | © June 9, 1930 | Eric Blore, Nora Swinburne & Ray Collins | |
| 1032 (NYC) | The Varsity Show | © June 30, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Gloria [Olivia] Shea, Joey Ray & Billy Taylor | |
| 1034 (NYC) | Horse Sense | May 1930 | Bob Roebuck & his horse Sporting Life | |
| 1035 (NYC) | The Lucky Break | October 12, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Harry Fox, Glenda Farrell & Walter Regan | |
| 1036 (NYC) | The Hard Guy | September 6, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Spencer Tracy & Katherine Alexander | Little Caesar (film) (TCM Greatest Gangster Films Prohibition Era) DVD |
| 1037 (NYC) | Temple Bells | May 1930 | Eddie Green | |
| 1039–1040 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Play Boy | September 7, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Harry Fox & others | |
| 1041–1042 (NYC) | Roseland | September 12, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Ruth Etting | Love Me or Leave Me (film) (Greatest Classic Legends Doris Day) DVD |
| 1043 (NYC) | A Private Engagement | May 1930 | the Yacht Club Boys | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1044 (NYC) | Harmonizing Songs | April 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Josephine Harmon & Jack King | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1045 (NYC) | Fashion's Mirror | October 19, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Jack Thompson & Barbara Newberry | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1046 (NYC) | Everything Happens to Me | June 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); James Carson with Leo Hoyt, Sid Garry, Lucille Lortel & Lisa Silbert | |
| 1047 (NYC) | At the Round Table | October 5, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Murray Roth (director); James J. Corbett, Damon Runyon, Mark Hellinger & DeWolf Hopper | |
| 1048 (NYC) | Bright Sayings | May 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Rob Le May, Harry Tighe & Irene Shirley | |
| 1049 (NYC) | Nay, Nay Nero | May 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Hugh Cameron, Bobby Watson & Nora Swinburne | |
| 1050 (NYC) | The Wanderer | September 21, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Douglas Stanbury | |
| 1051–1052 (NYC, 14 minutes) | Five Minutes From the Station | October 10, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Sylvia Sidney, Lynne Overman & Berton Churchill | |
| 1054 | The Substitute | September 28, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Charles Lawrence, Ray Collins & Walter Regan | |
| 1055–1056 (NYC, two-reeler) | Many Happy Returns | August 31, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Walter Connolly, Madge Evans, John Breedon & Ferdinand Gottschalk | |
| 1057 (NYC) | Grounds for Murder | July 1930 | Harold Beaudine (director); Ernest Glendenning, Phoebe Foster & others | |
| 1059 (NYC) | Let's Merge | June 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Doree Leslie, Stanley Ridges & Lillian Fitzgerald | |
| 1060 (NYC) | Snooze Reel #2 | June 1930 | ||
| 1061 (NYC) | The Jay Walker | September 21, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); H.I. Phillips (writer); Chester Clute | |
| 1062 (NYC) | Barefoot Days | July 1930 | Roy Mack (director); James Dunne? | |
| 1063 (NYC) | The Emergency Case | September 5, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Hugh Cameron, Al Ochs & Loretta Shea | |
| 1064 (NYC) | Lost and Found | November 9, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); William Demarest, Dorothy Appleby & Lilian Bond | |
| 1065 (NYC) | Dolly Daisy in "Dizzy Doings" | August 1930 | Howard Moss; co-animator: Charles Bennes | stop-motion animated cartoon |
| 1066 (NYC) | Seeing Off Service | October 19, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Harold Beaudine (director); Joe Penner, Jessie Busley & Harry McNaughton | |
| 1068 (NYC) | Stepping Out | July 1930 | Harold Beaudine (director); Joe Penner, Mary Phillips & Leo Donnelly | |
| 1069 (NYC) | Excuse the Pardon | December 7, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Ralph Morgan with Marjorie Gateson, Robert Middleton & Katherine Alexander | |
| 1070 (NYC) | Putting It On | June 1930 | Bobby Jarvis & Lilian Bond | |
| 1071 (NYC) | Modern Fairy Tales | February 22, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Harold Beaudine (director); Lilian Bond & others | |
| 1072–1073 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Nightingale | February 1, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Vivienne Osborne, Pat O'Brien & Lyle Talbot | |
| 1074 (NYC) | Mister Intruder | November 9, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Otto Kruger, Alan Brooks & Veree Teasdale | |
| 1075–1076 (NYC, two-reeler) | His Public | July 1930 | Harold Beaudine (director); Joe Morris & Flo Campbell | |
| 1077 (NYC) | Tintypes | July 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Chic Yorke & Rose King | |
| 1078 (NYC) | For Two Cents | August 1930 | De Wolf Hopper with Stanley Ridges | |
| 1079 (NYC) | The Recruits | February 1, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Arthur Hurley (director); Dudley Clements & Harry Shannon | |
| 1080 (NYC) | A Syncopated Sermon | November 16, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Hall Johnson Choir | |
| 1081 (NYC) | Seeing Things | September 21, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Harold Beaudine (director); William Demarest | |
| 1083 (NYC) | Where There's a Will | September 1930 | Roy Mack (director); George Hassell, Mabel Grainger, Joe Bonomo & Martin Berkeley | |
| 1085 (NYC) | For Art's Sake | October 5, 1930 | Harold Beaudine (director); Helen Broderick & Lester Crawford | |
| 1086 (NYC) | My Mistake | August 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Pat O'Brien & Donald Brian | |
| 1087 (NYC) | Alpine Echoes | July 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Douglas Stanbury | Spanish version #1088. |
| 1089 (NYC) | Showin' Off | July 1930 | Roy Mack (director); the Vitaphone Kiddies | |
| 1090 (NYC) | A Tip to Paris | December 6, 1931 (Film Daily review, completed ’30) | Bobby Jarvis & Eloise Taylor | |
| 1091–1092 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Bard of Broadway | October 5, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Joseph Henabery & Roy Mack (director); Walter Winchell, Madge Evans & others | |
| 1094 (NYC) | Compliments of the Season | September 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Eric Dressler, Lenita Lane & Pat O'Brien | |
| 1096–1097 (NYC, two-reeler) | Curses | © November 5, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Alan Dinehart, Erin O'Brien-Moore & others | |
| 1098–1099 (NYC, two-reeler) | The Gob | © December 9, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Hal Skelly & Madge Evans | |
| 1100 (NYC) | Politics | © November 24, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); George Jessel | |
| 1102 (NYC) | One on the Aisle | © November 25, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Lon Hascall, Peggy Bernier & George Haggerty | |
| 1103 (NYC) | Knocking 'em Cold | © November 5, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Andrew Tombes | |
| 1104 (NYC) | The Thirteenth Prisoner | November 30, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director) | |
| 1105 (NYC) | Tom Thumbs Down | © December 9, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Bobby Jarvis, Jimmy Dunn, Harry McNaughton & Sue Conroy | |
| 1106 (NYC) | Purely an Accident | © November 14, 1930 | Reed Brown Jr., Allen Kearns & Frank Otto | |
| 1107 (NYC) | Sitting Pretty | December 28, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Joe Phillips & Ruth Donnelly | |
| 1108 (NYC) | The Snooze Reel | December 1930 | Arthur Hurley & Roy Mack (director) | |
| 1110 (NYC) | A Stuttering Romance | © November 6, 1930 | Murray Roth (director); Joe Penner & Dorothea Chard | |
| 1111 (NYC) | The Unfair Sex | © February 16, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Dan Healy & Dolly Gilbert | |
| 1114 (NYC) | The Headache Man | November 23, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Dudley Clements, Hobart Cavanaugh | |
| 1115 (NYC) | Number Please! (Number, Please) | © October 24, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Sheila Barrett & Leslie Barrie | |
| 1116 (NYC) | My Hero | © November 5, 1930 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Eddie Foy Jr. | |
| 1117 (NYC) | The Honeymoon Trail | © February 5, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director) | |
| 1118 (NYC) | The Pest of Honor | © December 9, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); Harry Short, Edward Fielding | |
| 1119 (NYC) | Straight and Narrow | © November 14, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Ed Robbins, Herschel Mayall & Allen Jenkins | |
| 1120 (NYC) | Horseshoes | © December 9, 1930 | Lynne Overman | |
| 1121 (NYC) | Madame of the Jury | © November 14, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Judith Anderson, John Patrick & Phil Leigh | |
| 1122 (NYC) | One Good Turn | © December 9, 1930 | Ruth Etting & Jay Velie | |
| 1124 (NYC) | Service Stripes | © December 9, 1930 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Joe Penner, Anthony Hughes & Joan Carter Waddell | |
| 1125 (NYC) | Envy | © January 5, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director); Geoffrey Kerry; Madge Evans, Eric Dresser, Romney Brent | |
| 1126 (NYC) | The Darling Brute | November 1930 | Jack Hazzard, Helen Goodhue & William Halligan | |
| 1127 (NYC) | Buster Bear | January 1931 | John McCory Studio | animated cartoon © April 14, 1930 as "Buster Bear in The Spring Carnival" (an earlier Buster cartoon © March 14, 1930 seems not to have been picked up by Warner) |
| 1128 (NYC) | Henry Santry and His Soldiers of Fortune | March 1, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Henry Santry | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1130 (NYC) | Wedding Bills | © January 5, 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Billy Wayne, Helen Lynd & Brooks Benedict | |
| 1131 (NYC) | The Check-up | © December 10, 1930 | Jack Hazzard & Ruth Donnelly | |
| 1132–1133 (NYC, two-reeler) | Revenge Is Sweet | December 1930 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Herschel Mayall, Barbara Weeks, Leslie Adams & Frank Allworth | |
| 1134 (NYC) | Lodge Night | © December 10, 1930 | Joe Phillips, John Dunsmore & Hazel Cox | |
| 1135 (NYC) | Home Made | © December 10, 1930 | Arthur Hurley (director); Albert Hackett, Dorothy Hall & Jessie Busley | |
| 1136 (NYC) | Dolly Daisy in "Hearts and Flowers" | December 1930 | Howard Moss; co-animator: Charles Bennes | stop-motion animated cartoon |
| 1137 (NYC) | The Painter | © January 5, 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Frank Orth | |
| 1138 (NYC) | Opening Night | © January 5, 1931 | Roy Mack (director) & Benjamin Kaye (writer); Dorothy Sands, Thomas Jackson, Leo Hoyt, Peggy Shannon, Helen Eby-Rock | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1140 (NYC) | The Lady Killer | © January 5, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director); Eric Dressler & Shirley Palmer | |
| 1141 (NYC) | Last But Not Leased | © January 5, 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Billy Wayne & Thelma White | |
| 1142 (NYC) | Last Straw | © January 5, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Romney Bent | |
| 1143 (NYC) | Charlie Hackett in "Romeo & Juliet" | November 9, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Charles Hackett with Rosa Lowe | |
| 1144 (NYC) | Maid to Order | © January 5, 1931 | Eleanor Shaler, Pauline MacLean & Bob Lynn | |
| 1145 (NYC) | The Watch Dog | © January 5, 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Jack Hazzard | |
| 1147 (NYC) | Office Scandal | © December 9, 1930 | Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy & Christina Graver | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1149 (NYC) | Merry Christmas (Pap's Slay Ride) | © March 16, 1931 | Hugh Cameron & Spring Byington | |
| 1150 (NYC) | On the Job | © January 5, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Ann Codee, Frank Orth, Florence Vernon | |
| 1151 (NYC) | Africa Shrieks | © February 5, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Hugh Cameron | |
| 1152 (NYC) | Peace and Quiet | © February 5, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director); Billy Wayne & Betty Lawrence | |
| 1153 (NYC) | One Way Out | © January 5, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director); Charles Lawrence & Thelma White | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1155–1156 (NYC, two reeler) | With Pleasure | © February 5, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Billy Wayne, the Colette Sisters & others | |
| 1157 (NYC) | The Love Nest | © February 5, 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Billy Wayne & Thelma White | |
| 1158 (NYC) | Squaring the Triangle | © February 5, 1931 | Donald Brian & Mayo Methot | |
| 1159 (NYC) | The Old Flame | © February 5, 1931 | Audrey Dale, Dennie Moore & John Marsdon | |
| 1160 (NYC) | The Hangover | © February 5, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Bernard Granville & Neely Edwards | |
| 1161 (NYC) | The Strange Case | © February 5, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Charles Halton & Gerald Oliver Smith | |
| 1167–1168 (NYC, two-reeler) | Masquerade | © February 16, 1931 | Casey Robinson (director); Vivienne Osborne, Roy D'Arcy & Wilfred Lytell | |
| 1171 (NYC) | Good Times | © February 16, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director); Madge Evans | |
| 1188 (NYC) | Playing with Fire | © March 26, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Jack Hazzard | |
| 4426–4427 (LA, two-reeler) | The Border Patrol | January 25, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Joe Frisco, Dorothy Knapp, Eddie Graham & Theodore Lorch | |
| 4654 (LA) | Alaska | © February 16, 1931 | Eddie Lambert | Laff Tours |
1931
[edit]Filmed in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York.
| # | Title | Release, copyright or review date | Director & performers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1149 | Crimes Square | © March 26, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director); Pat O'Brien, Mary Doran | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1162 | Ship's Concert | February 5, 1931 | Giovanni Martinelli | |
| 1163 | Making Good | © February 5, 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Stanley Rauh (story); Joe Penner | |
| 1164 | Taking Chances | April 26, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Billy Wayne & Thelma White | |
| 1165 | Court Plastered | January 25, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Helen Broderick & Lester Crawford | |
| 1166 | Sleepy Head | © February 5, 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Billy Wayne & Thelma White | |
| 1169 | Second Childhood | © February 5, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Herschel Mayall & Clara Mackin | |
| 1173 | Hello, Sucker! | © February 20, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director); Hugh O’Connell | |
| 1174 | Carnival | April 12, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Giovanni Martinelli & John Harvard | |
| 1175 | Hot Sands | © February 20, 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Billy Wayne & Thelma White | |
| 1176 | George Jessel and His Russian Art Choir | © February 20, 1931 | George Jessel | Smart Money (1931 film) (TCM Greatest Gangster Films Prohibition Era) DVD |
| 1177 | Donkey Business | © February 5, 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy & Christina Graver | |
| 1178 | Stars of Yesterday | February 22, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Bert Frank (film editor) | Reissued as a "Pepper Pot". Clips of various silent screen stars: William S. Hart, Texas Guinan, Theda Bara & Mabel Normand. Walter O'Keefe hosts. |
| 1179–1180 (two-reeler) | Angel Cake | © February 20, 1931 | Roy Mack (director) | |
| 1183–1184 (two-reeler) | Partners | March 15, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Leon Errol, Billy Gaxton, George Haggerty & Shirley Palmer | |
| 1185 | Sax Appeal | © April 13, 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Joe Penner | |
| 1186 | Good Pie Forever | © April 13, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Billy Wayne & Thelma White | |
| 1187 | The Spirits of 76th Street | March 26, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director); Helen Broderick, Dudley Clements & Lester Crawford | |
| 1190 | Dumb Luck | April 19, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Frank Orth & Ann Codee | |
| 1191 | Close Friends | June 1931 | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Hobart Cavanaugh & Roger Gray | |
| 1193 | Night Club Revels | © March 16, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Walter O’Keefe with the Collette Sisters & the Muriel Abbott Dancers | |
| 1194 | Ye Old Time News Reel (Yee Old Time News Flashes) | April 26, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Bert Frank (editor); narr: Burnet Hershey | compilation reel with old clips of the Wright brothers & Harry Houdini |
| 1195 | Hocus Pocus | © March 16, 1931 | Edgar Bergen (& Charlie McCarthy) | |
| 1196 | Hitting the High C's | © March 16, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); the Brittons (Frank & Mitt Britton) | |
| 1198–1199 (two-reeler) | Gangway | August 16, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Joe Penner & Polly Walters | |
| 1200 | Sky High | March 29, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Janet Reade & Dudley Clements with Larry Adler & the Lovel Sisters | |
| 1201 | Riding Master | March 1931 | Poodles Hanneford with Madge Evans & Naomi Ray | |
| 1203 | The Grand Dame | May 2, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director); Patsy Kelly | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1204–1205 (two-reeler) | Freshman Love | April 12, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Ruth Etting with Don Tompkins & Jeanie Lang | |
| 1206 | Good Mourning | August 23, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Eddie Foy, Jr. with Eric Dressler, Thelma White, Peggy Shannon, Doris Covert & Mel Efird | |
| 1209–1210 (two-reeler) | The Handy Guy | May 24, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Earle Sande | |
| 1212 | The Inventor | May 11, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Al Ray (director); Billy Wayne & Thelma White | |
| 1213 | Come Back to Sorriento | February 1931 | Giovanni Martinelli, The Albertieri Dancers | |
| 1215 | Cold Turkey | July 5, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Helen Broderick & Lester Crawford | |
| 1216 | Babykins | July 19, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Al Ray (director?); Pee Wee Singer | |
| 1217 | The Dandy and the Belle | May 11, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Frank McGlynn, Mary Murray, Pauline Dee | |
| 1220 | Nine O'Clock Folks | June 28, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Roy Fant & the Mound City Blue Blowers | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1221–1222 (two-reeler) | Moving In | June 7, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Al Ray (director); Joe Penner | |
| 1224 | Fast and Pleasant | May 1931 | Al Ray (director); Billy Wayne & Thelma White | |
| 1226 | The Troubador | May 11, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Giovanni Martinelli | |
| 1227 | Baby Face | May 1931 | Victor Moore | |
| 1232 | Milky Way | May 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Neely Edwards with Six Ambassadors, Bob Ripa & the Muriel Abbott Dancers | |
| 1235 | The Week End | June 1931 | Neely Edwards, Mary Murray & Lucille Sears | |
| 1241 | The Bitter Wife (Our Wife) | June 1931 | Al Ray (director); Frank Orth & Ann Codee with Dudley Clements, Florence Vernon, Lew Christy & Mabel Ash | |
| 1244 | Opportunity Night | June 1931 | Al Klein, Frank Leslie & Genevieve Bowman | |
| 1245 | The Gypsy Caravan | September 27, 1931 | Roy Mack (director); Giovanni Martinelli, Max Pollikoff (violinist) & Willis Stiles (dancer) | |
| 1246–1247 (two-reeler) | June 28, 1931 (Film Daily review) | The Bigger They Are | Primo Carnera & Little Billy | |
| 1255–1256 (two-reeler) | The Gigolo Racket | June 21, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Helen Morgan with Reed Brown Jr. & Joseph Striker | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1257–1258 (two-reeler) | Success | July 1931 | Alfred J Goulding (director); Jack Haley, Helen Lynd & Phil Silvers | Vitaphone Varieties Vol. 2 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1260 | Travel Hogs | November 15, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Hugh Cameron & Dave Chasen | |
| 1263 | Gold Digging Gentlemen | August 23, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Al Klein, Maria Gambarelli, Joan Abbott, Harriet Nawrot & Co. | |
| 1279 | A Havana Cocktail | 1931 | Roy Mack (director); The Castro Cuban Orchestra | |
| 1314 | The High School Hoofer | December 6 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Hal Le Roy & Eleanor King | |
| 1564–1565 | Seasons Greetings | December 20, 1931 | Arthur Hurley (director); Janet Reade, Ray Collins, Joe Penner, Robert L. Ripley, Jack Norworth, Thelma White, Ruth Etting |
1932
[edit]| # | Title | Release, copyright or review date | Director & performers | Additional notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1351 | Campus Spirit | April 24, 1932 (Film Daily review) | Roy Mack (director); Douglas Stanbury & NYU Glee Club | |
| 1387 | Smash Your Baggage | October 29, 1932 | Roy Mack (director); Carrie Marrier, Lew Payton, Mabel Scott | Warner Bros. Big Band, Jazz & Swing Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| 1391 | Pie, Pie Blackbird | June 4, 1932 | Roy Mack (director) & A. Dorian Otvas (directors); Eubie Blake, Nina Mae McKinney & the Nicholas Brothers | Warner Bros. Big Band, Jazz & Swing Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD & Hallelujah! (1929 film) DVD |
| 1454 | Municipal Band Wagon | © September 29, 1932 | Roy Mack (director); Bernice Claire with Jimmy Caruso Band, Cy Laundry and Walter Wilson | |
| 5401 | Breakwater | August 1932 |
Vitaphone Varieties in Technicolor (1929–1930)
[edit]Warners Brothers and its Vitaphone and First National subsidiaries produced more features and shorts in two-strip Technicolor during the late twenties and early thirties than any other studio. Unfortunately not all of them survive in their original format as black and white TV prints are sometimes the remaining available ones. The following were filmed in Hollywood in the fall of 1929 through the spring of 1930. One title, Bubbles, is available in black and white form on Meet Me In St. Louis (2-disc) DVD & Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD
| Title | Release, copyright or review date | Director & performers |
|---|---|---|
| The Military Post | October 1929 | Roberto Guzman (director) |
| A Spanish Fiesta | October 1929 | Roberto Guzman (director) |
| Dance of The Paper Dolls | November 13, 1929 | Roy Mack (director) |
| Minstrel Days | © January 13, 1930 | The Plantation Four & Jess Brooke |
| Bubbles | January 1930 | Roy Mack (director); The Gumm Sisters with Judy Garland, Mary McCarty & The Vitaphone Kiddies |
| The Sultan's Jester | January 1930 | Joyzell, Randall Adagio Four & Edward Lankow |
| Only the Girl | February 1930 | Vera Marshe & Buddy Wattles |
| A Scene from Carmen | February 19, 1930 (filmed October 1929) | Alice Gentle. May be a cut scene from The Show of Shows |
| Lonely Gigolo | March 1930 | Jack Haskell (director); Lotti Loder |
| Jazz Rehearsal | © March 19, 1930 (filmed December '29) | |
| And How | © March 19, 1930 (filmed December '29) | Anne Greenway |
| Contrary Mary | © March 19, 1930 (filmed Dec '29) | Bobby Watson |
| The Wedding of Jack and Jill | © March 19, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); The Gumm Sisters with Judy Garland, Peggy Ryan & The Vitaphone Kiddies |
| Hello Baby! | © March 24, 1930 (filmed December '29) | Larry Ceballos |
| A Holiday in Storyland | April 2, 1930 | Roy Mack (director); The Gumm Sisters with Judy Garland, the Vitaphone Kiddies, the Three Kute & Five Little Steppers |
| South Sea Pearl | May 7, 1930 | Gaston Glass |
| Holland | May 28, 1930 | Jack Haskell (director) |
| The Japanese Bowl | June 11, 1930 | Jack Haskell (director) |
| Evolution of the Dance | July 11, 1930 (Film Daily review) | Lupino Lane, Billy Taft & Mary Hutchinson |
| Girls We Remember | © September 6, 1930 | Mack College Quartette, the DeMarcos & Mitzi Mayfair |
| College Capers | © September 6, 1930 | Carl McBride (director); Ty Parvis, Lillian Crowell, Baron & Janet Gilmore, Ken & DeBard Brothers |
| Modern Business | © September 6, 1930 | |
| Poor Little Butterfly | September 21, 1930 | Roy Mack (director) |
| Shakespeare Was Right | October 12, 1930 (Film Daily review; completed February) |
Assorted Vitaphone promotionals and commercials
[edit]Not a complete list, but a select number of 1926–1931 shorts of interest
- The Birth of the Telephone / Thomas A. Watson (former assistant to Alexander Graham Bell) / June 1926
- Reverend J. Ford and Reverend H. Hickman: 100th anniversary of Jamestown, New York / June 1927
- Special Star Number for Theater Opening / Al Jolson / December 1928
- Voice of Vitaphone / August 1929 / Short reel numbered #877
- Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee / John G. Adolfi (director) / August 1930 / The Jazz Singer DVD
- Chesterfield Celebrities / Clark & McCullough / January 18, 1931 / 22 minute special
- Graduation Day in Bugland / animated cartoon / March 1, 1931
- Slopes of the Andes / March 29, 1931 / commercial for American Coffee
Pepper Pots (1931–1936)
[edit]"Pepper Pots" replaced "Vitaphone Varieties" as a marketing name for Warner's black & white one-reel (running under 11 minutes) shorts released between 1931 and 1936. These included comedy acts, a series spotlighting famous songwriters and a number of sports, animal subjects and other human-interest documentary films.
| Title | Director & performers | Release, copyright or review date | Additional notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaking Out Of Turn | Al Ray (director); Johnny Walker & Dudley Clements | September 20, 1931 (Film Daily review) | |
| The Eyes Have It | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy & Christina Graver | © October 3, 1931 | The Public Enemy (Greatest Gangster Films Prohibition Era) DVD |
| Thrills Of Yesterday: Serious Moments from Serial Days | Bert Frank (film editor) | October 17, 1931 | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD (film montage featuring Norma Talmidge, William Duncan, The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial), Harry Houdini & Larry Semon) |
| Free And Easy | Roy Mack (director); Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy & Christina Graver | November 8, 1931 (Film Daily review) | |
| In Your Sombrero | Billy Wayne & Josephine Bono | November 15, 1931 (Film Daily review) | |
| Hot News Margie | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Marjorie Beebe | November 29, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Relativity And Relatives | Dr. Rockwell | December 6, 1931 (Film Daily review) | Motion Picture Herald also lists this as a "Big Star Comedy" [9] |
| The Wise Quacker | The Drakes | December 1931 | |
| Junior | Roy Mack (director); Neely Edwards with James McCallion, Maxine Flood & May Hanna | January 10, 1932 (Film Daily review; completed May 1931) | |
| Cigars, Cigarettes | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Marjorie Beebe | February 28, 1932 (Film Daily review) | |
| Stuck Down Stucco | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Louis Simon, Gertrude Mudge & others | March 1932 | |
| The Movie Album #1 | Herman Ruby (director); Bert Frank (film editor) | March 5, 1932 | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD (film montage includes Biograph 1913 material with Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Sweet and Lillian Gish, Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew at Vitagraph, MY OFFICIAL WIFE with Clara Kimball Young, early Norma Shearer in 1922, John Bunny, Helene Costello, Maurice Costello, Florence Turner, 1915 feature CARMEN, Charlie Chaplin in A WOMAN, Antonio Morenao & Edith Storey) |
| Remember When | Bert Frank (film editor) | April 17, 1932 (Film Daily review) | clips of Teddy Roosevelt, Titanic, Emmeline Pankhurst and Nicholas II of Russia |
| Movie Album #2 (Movie Album Featurettes) | Bert Frank (film editor) | June 4, 1932 | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD (film montage mostly from the Vitagraph and Biograph studios featuring Maurice Costello, John Bunny, Helene Costello, Blanche Sweet, Walter Miller (actor) & James Young in 1914's THE PORTRAIT) |
| Movie Album #3 | Bert Frank (film editor) | June 1932 | Includes early shots of Marie Dressler |
| Napoleon's Bust | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Don Coleman, Jane Allen & Ted Husing | June 18, 1932 (Film Daily review) | |
| Love Thy Neighbor | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Dan Tompkins & Marel Foster | July 23, 1932 (Film Daily review) | |
| Babe O'Mine | Jul 23, 1932 (Film Daily review) | ||
| If I'm Elected | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Douglass Dumbrille, Ray Collins, Chester Clute & Diana Seaby | August 9, 1932 (Film Daily review) | |
| Nickelette | Roy Mack (director) | August 24, 1932 (Film Daily review) | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD (film montage of 1890s NYC Bowery, sports events 1910s, Rudolph Valentino in 1920 and vintage Vitagraph) |
| You're Killing Me | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Ray Collins, Victor Kilian & others | August 26, 1932 (Film Daily review) | |
| King Salmon | © September 29, 1932 | ||
| Contact | Joseph Henabery (director); Frank Hawks, Alice Reinheart, Billy Hayes, G. MacQuarrie, Scott Moore & William Pringle | October 8, 1932 | |
| Mississippi Suite, A Tone Journey | October 1932 | musical travelogue | |
| Out of the Past | Bert Frank (film editor) | October 22, 1932 (Film Daily review) | clips of Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Jack Dempsey |
| Fisherman's Holiday | Frank McHugh (narrator) | November 1932 | Tuna fishing |
| Dangerous Occupations | Bert Frank (film editor); Lowell Thomas | © January 16, 1933 | newsreel clips of daredevilry |
| A Whale of a Yarn | Lowell Thomas (narrator) | January 28, 1933 (Film Daily review) | Alaska wildlife (whales, sea otters, birdlife) |
| Africa Speaks - English | Roy Mack (director), Edgar Bergen (& Charlie McCarthy) | © February 6, 1933 | |
| Sea Devils | Frank McHugh (narrator) | © March 22, 1933 | tuna fishing |
| Little White Lies | Glen Lambert (director); Franklin Ardell & Chester Clute, Dan Coleman, Margaret Lee, Wilfred Lyrel and Agnes Franey | April 1, 1933 | |
| Inklings | Charles Geigerich; Lowell Thomas (narrator); part animated cartoon | April 8, 1933 | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Parades of Yesterday | Jack Henley; Bert Frank (film editor); Leo Donnelly (narrator); David Mendoza (music) | April 8, 1933 | newsreel footage of 1890s-20s of Coney Island, civil war veterans and the 1919 victory celebration. |
| Around the World in Eight Minutes | Alfred J. Goulding (director); Hugh Cameron, Dan Coleman, Dudley Hawley & Lois Wild | © June 6, 1933 | (filmed February 1932) |
| A Penny a Peep | Ralph Staub (director); Fred Harper, Gertrude Mudge & Dick Wallace | © July 16, 1933 | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Song Hits by Roy Turk | Roy Mack (director); Kay Hamilton, Madelyn Kileen, Mario & Lavarin, Barnett & Clark & Mildren van Dorn | July 1933 | |
| The Road Is Open Again | Alfred E. Green (director); Dick Powell | August 1933 | |
| Walter Donaldson, Popular Composer | Roy Mack (director) | © September 9, 1933 | |
| Rock-A-Bye Bye | Joseph Henabery (director); Doctor Rockwell, Jules Epailly, Adelina Thomason & Oscar Ragland | © September 28, 1933 | |
| Admission Five Cents | Leo Donnelly (narrator) | © October 9, 1933 | |
| Laughs in the Law | Joseph Henabery (director); Dan Coleman, Joan Castle, Robert Hyman, Hugh Cameron & Edgar Nelson | © October 20, 1933 | |
| Harry Warren: America's Foremost Composer | Ray McCarey (director); Harry Warren | November 18, 1933 | 42nd Street (film) DVD & Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Movie Memories | Jack Henley & Glen Lambert (directors) | December 30, 1933 | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD (includes clips of Robert Anderson Van Wyck, 1910 Jeffries-Johnson fight & Flora Finch and Kate Brice in THE OLD FIRE HORSE AND THE NEW FIRE CHIEF, 1914) |
| Isn't That Awful? | Roy Mack (director); Easy Aces (Goodman & Jane Ace) | © February 28, 1934 | |
| The Wrong, Wrong Trail | Joseph Henabery (director); Block and Sully (Jesse Block & Eve Sully), Donald McBride & Shemp Howard | © February 28, 1934 | Vitaphone Comedy Collection Vol. 1 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| The Tune Detective | Joseph Henabery (director); Sigmund Spaeth, Katherine Newman, Peggy Lee, Vera Van & Davey Jones | © March 1, 1934 | |
| Easy Aces | Joseph Henabery (director); Easy Aces (Goodman & Jane Ace) | © March 4, 1934 | first Easy Aces comedy filmed (July 1933) |
| Hollywood Newsreel | George Bilson | March 24, 1934 | 42nd Street (film) DVD & Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD (features Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell & Hal Le Roy) |
| Little Miss Mischief | © April 10, 1934 | ||
| A Cabinet Meeting | Joseph Henabery (director); Radio Ramblers, Janet Rathbun and Dudley Clements | © April 13, 1934 | |
| Pure Feud | Joseph Henabery (director); Edgar Bergen (& Charlie McCarthy) (and Shemp Howard in a bit role) | © Apr 14, 1934 | Vitaphone Comedy Collection Vol. 1 (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Those Were the Days | Roy Mack (director), George Meyer, Brook Allen, the Eton Boys, Lovey Sisters and Helen Gordon | © April 23, 1934 | |
| Good Badmitten | Hugh Herbert, Walter Pidgeon | June 1934 | |
| At the Races | Joseph Henabery & Jack Henley (directors); Edgar Bergen (& Charlie McCarthy) | July 21, 1934 | |
| Just Concentrate | Ralph Staub (director); Lulu McConnell, Bob Hyman, Eddie Acuff & Jean Lacy | © July 21, 1934 | |
| Dad Minds The Baby | August 3, 1934 | ||
| The Camera Speaks | Billy Bitzer | August 11, 1934 | Lady Killer (1933 film) DVD & Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD (includes clips of Gloria Swanson, Bobby Vernon, Charles Ray, Dorothy Dalton, Louise Glaum & William Jennings Bryan) |
| Guess Stars | Joseph Henabery (director); Radio Ramblers, Lionel Stander & Nancy Kelly | August 22, 1934 | |
| Movie Memories #2 | Ralph Staub (director) | August 23, 1934 (Film Daily review) | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD (montage of famous stars who died before 1934) |
| The Stolen Melody | Joseph Henabery (director); Sigmund Spaeth, Noveliers Quartet, Crawford & Caskey, Kean & Reese | © October 5, 1934 | |
| Vaudeville Reel #1: Herb Williams | Joseph Henabery (director); with Honey Family, Reis & Dunn, Grauman's Stepping Stars | October 13, 1934 | Footlight Parade DVD & Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Vaudeville Reel #2: Buster Shaver, Olive and George | Roy Mack (director); Jack Pepper's Society Pets, Carl Emmy & his Mad Wigs, the Three Queens | October 29, 1934 | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Songs That Live | Roy Mack (director); Gus Edwards | © November 24, 1934 | |
| A Trip through a Hollywood Studio | Ralph Staub (director); Hugh Herbert & others | December 7, 1934 | 42nd Street (film) (Greatest Classic Films Busby Berkeley 1) DVD & Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Charles Ahearn and His Millionaires | Joseph Henabery (director); with Eddie Miller & the Three Aristocrats | © February 9, 1935 | |
| Vaudeville Reel #3: Al Trahan | Joseph Henabery (director); Chaz Chase, Ray & Sunshine, the Holman Sisters | February 16, 1935 | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Radio Reel #1: Listening In | Roy Mack (director); Arthur Brown, DeMarco Sisters, Cross & Dunn, Irene Taylor and Mary Small | © February 18, 1935 | |
| Radio Reel #3: We Do Our Part | Joseph Henabery (director); Landt Trio & White, Donald Novis, Ed Lowry, Edith Murray, Gene & Glenn and David Burns | © February 18, 1935 | |
| Man of a Thousand Hits | Joseph Henabery (director); Harry Von Tilzer | © March 18, 1935 | |
| Radio Reel #4: Egg Marks The Spot | Joseph Henabery (director); Sam Hearn, Jessie Busley, Three X Sisters, Lee Sullivan, Sims & Bailey | March 30, 1935 | |
| Billy Hill | Joseph Henabery (director); Billy Hill (songwriter) | © April 8, 1935 | |
| Some Bridge Work | Lloyd French (director); Easy Aces (Goodman & Jane Ace) | April 13, 1935 | |
| Vaudeville Reel #4: All Star Vaudeville | Roy Mack (director); On-Wah Troupe, Blossom Seeley, Benny Fields, Pat Rooney Jr. & Sr., the Runaway Four | April 27, 1935 | Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Palm Beach Knights | Lloyd French (director); Charles Ahearn, David Burns, Casper Balsamo and Fred Harper | May 1935 | |
| Two Boobs in a Balloon | Lloyd French (director); Edgar Bergen (& Charlie McCarthy) | May 5, 1935 | |
| Kings of the Turf | Ralph Staub (director) | May 11, 1935 | horse-race reel |
| Moving Melodies | Joseph Henabery (director); J. Fred Coots, Lillian Shade & Charles Coles | June 8, 1935 | |
| All Colored Vaudeville Show | Roy Mack (director); Adelaide Hall, Nicholas Brothers | June 22, 1935 | Warner Bros. Big Band, Jazz & Swing Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD & The Green Pastures (film) DVD |
| Radio Reel #5- Rah Rah Radio | Roy Mack (director); David Burns, Jimmie Lucas, DeMarco Sisters, Ralph Kirbery, Al & Lee Riser and Jack & Lee Cleman | July 6, 1935 | |
| What's the Idea? | Roy Mack (director); Lew Pollack, Helen Ware & the Cavaliers | August 17, 1935 | |
| Nutville | Roy Mack (director); Radio Ramblers, Donald MacBride & David Burns | September 7, 1935 | |
| The All American Drawback | Lloyd French (director); Edgar Bergen (& Charlie McCarthy) | October 5, 1935 | Captain Blood (1935 film) (Greatest Classic Legends Errol Flynn) DVD |
| Wee Men | Joseph Henabery (director); Singer's Midgets, Lucille Sears & Flora Seaman | November 2, 1935 | |
| P's and Cues (Ps & Qs) | Lloyd French (director); Paul Douglas (narrator); Charles Peterson & Ruth McGinnis | November 27, 1935 | |
| Can It Be Done? | Lloyd French (director); Ray Gross, Charles Laurance, Loretta Sayers & Elliot Fisher | November 29, 1935 | |
| Some Class | Lloyd French (director); Charles Ahearn, Willie Solar & Gene Bruce | December 4, 1935 | |
| Logging Along | Eddie Acuff (narrator) | December 4, 1935 | |
| Wild Wings | Donald R. Dickey (director); Gayne Whitman (narrator) | January 24, 1936 | covers birdlife at Laysan Island |
| Seein' Stars | Lloyd French (director); Easy Aces (Goodman & Jane Ace) with Clarence Chase & Billie Leonard | February 8, 1936 | (filmed September 1934) |
| Timber Giants (Tall Timber) | Eddie Acuff (narrator) | February 22, 1936 | logging documentary |
| Half-Witness | Roy Mack (director); Radio Ramblers | March 21, 1936 | |
| Whale Ho! | April 1936 | profiles whale hunting in New Zealand | |
| Beneath the Sea | B. F. Zeidman (producer); Stacy Woodard (director) | April 11, 1936 | Undersea documentary featuring sharks and octopus |
| Medium Well Done | Lloyd French (director); Theodore Hardeen | © April 21, 1936 |
Vitaphone "Novelties" and revived Vitaphone Varieties (1936–1939)
[edit]All of these are black and white shorts, running under 11 minutes and completed at the Brooklyn (NYC) facilities.
| Title | Director & performers | Release, copyright or review date | Additional notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nut Guilty | Lloyd French (director); Edgar Bergen (& Charlie McCarthy), Gerrie Worthing, George Anderson & Edith Brandall | June 12, 1936 | |
| When Fish Fight | (Sunbeam Pictures co-production); Clem McCarthy (narrator) | July 11, 1936 | |
| Check Your Cash | Lloyd French (director); Paul Douglas (narrator); card expert Louis Zingone | © July 12, 1936 | |
| Slum Fun | Lloyd French (director); Johnny Berkes & Charles O'Donnell | © August 8, 1936 | |
| An Ounce of Prevention | Lloyd French (director); Ray Gross | October 21, 1936 | |
| Oklahoma As Is | Carl Sterns Clancy & Cal Tinney | October 29, 1936 (Film Daily review) | travelogue |
| Roger Wolf Kahn & His Orchestra | Roy Mack (director); Roger Wolf Kahn, Charles Carlyle, Evelyn Poe, James & Evelyn Vernon | December 2, 1936 | |
| Rushin' Art | John Henley & Lloyd French (directors); Miss Juliet & others | December 1936 | |
| Ghost to Ghost Hookup | Joseph Henabery (director); Radio Ramblers | April 3, 1937 | |
| The Lifers of the Party | Roy Mack (director); the Yacht Club Boys | April 17, 1937 | |
| Home Run on the Keys | Roy Mack (director); Babe Ruth, Byron Gay & Zez Confrey | April 24, 1937 | |
| A Musical Operation | Roy Mack (director); the Norsemen, Frank Gaby, Virginia Verrill & Gloria Gilbert | May 24, 1937 | |
| Double Talk | Lloyd French (director); Edgar Bergen (& Charlie McCarthy) | June 26, 1937 | Hollywood Hotel (film) DVD |
| A Neckin' Party | Lloyd French (director); Edgar Bergen (& Charlie McCarthy) | September 4, 1937 | Variety Show (1937 film) (Busby Berkeley Collection 2) DVD |
| Puppet Love | Lloyd French (director); Salici's puppets | September 18, 1937 (BoxOffice review) | in color |
| Roping 'Em Alive | Ira Genet (editor); Basil Ruysdael (narrator) | November 6, 1937 | travelogue footage of African tribes and India |
| Vitaphone Frolics | Stanley Brothers, Jack & Loretta Clemens, Zeb Carver & his Cousins & L.I.M.E. Trio | November 27, 1937 | |
| Vitaphone Capers | The Downing Sisters with Elaine Downing, Raphael, Swor & Lubin Joe Termini & Co. | © December 22, 1937 | |
| Unreal Newsreel | Eddie Forman; Paul Douglas (narrator) | January 8, 1938 | |
| Ski Flight: A Document of Skiing According to the Principles of Hannes | Otto Lang & Jerome Hill (directors); Howard Claney (narrator) | February 4, 1938 | sport reel filmed at Mount Whitney and Mount Baker, California |
| Alibi Time | Roy Mack (director); Radio Ramblers, Jose Dawning, Edith Roarke & Morgan Conway | February 12, 1938 | |
| Vitaphone Gambols | Lloyd French (director); the ABC Trio, Masters & Rollins, Chaz Chase, Elaine Dowling & the Tip Top Girls | March 19, 1938 | |
| Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Crawford | Lloyd French (director); Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Crawford, Lynn Martin, Sam Moseby & the Foremen Quartet | April 11, 1938 | |
| The Juggling Fool | Lloyd French (director); Bobby May & Anita Simpson | May 14, 1938 | |
| Table Manners | Lloyd French (director); Clem McCarthy | October 15, 1938 | Sports reel on table tennis. |
| A Vaudeville Interlude | Bert & Betty, Gaudsmith Brothers, Hamonica Scamps with Murray Lane | November 19, 1938 | |
| Robbin' Good | Louis Zingone | December 10, 1938 | |
| Radio and Relatives | Roy Mack (director); Jack Waldron, Rob Nichols, Laura Deane and Garner, Wolfe & Hakins | © December 30, 1938 | |
| Ski Girl | Ira Genet (director); Dwight Weist (narrator) | January 14, 1939 | |
| The Nine Million | Roy Mack (director); Burnet Hershey | February 4, 1939 | newsreel documentary about the rise of Fascism |
| Gadgeteers | Joseph Henabery (director); Warren Asche, Marjorie Stafford & Fred Harper | February 18, 1939 | |
| The Crawfords At Home | Lloyd French (director); Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Crawford, Judith Barron, Bill Johnson, Crawford & Caskey | April 15, 1939 | Invisible Stripes DVD & Vitaphone Cavalcade of Musical Comedy Shorts (Warner Archive) DVD |
| Dean of Pasteboards | Lloyd French (director); Louis Zingone | May 27, 1939 | |
| One Day Stand | Ira Genet (director); Dwight Weist (narrator); Clyde Beatty & his animal acts | August 19, 1939 | |
| History Repeats Itself | Lloyd French (director); Radio Rogues | October 10, 1939 | |
| An Organ Novelty with the Three Crawfords | Joseph Henabery (narrator); Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Crawford, Miriam Graham & Robert Simmons | October 25, 1939 | |
| All Girl Revue | Lloyd French (director); June Allyson, Harrison Sisters, Betty Moe, Beverly Crane and Beverly Kirk | June 22, 1940 (filmed July '39) | The Roaring Twenties (Greatest Gangster Films Prohibition Era) DVD |
Hollywood Novelties / Warner Novelties (1940–1953)
[edit]Most of these were completed in California, explaining the change in series name. In the mid-forties, the studio reverted to the old "Vitaphone Varieties" logo with a number of titles, although these black and white documentaries (all running 8–11 minutes in length) were very different than the twenties and thirties musical and comedy acts. After a few years absence, they were revived as "Warner Novelties", consisting mostly of newsreel and earlier recycled footage stretching past the decades. Excluded from the following list (for space reasons) are the first two Joe McDoakes comedies of 1942 that were issued under the Hollywood Novelty logo, those featuring archery expert Howard Hill and compilation director Robert Youngson. See their articles for further information.
| Title | Major credits | Release, copyright or review date | Additional notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexican Jumping Beans | Eddie Davis (director); music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Knox Manning | © December 7, 1940 | |
| Polo with the Stars | producer: Myron J. Schwartz; director: Paul R. Thoma; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Knox Manning | September 20, 1941 | Features Joe E. Brown, Jack Holt & Buddy Rogers |
| Miracle Makers | Owen Crump (director); music: Rex Dunn; narrator: Knox Manning | September 20, 1941 | Docu-reel on "sources of power" like water |
| White Sails | producer: Walter Fulter; director: Owen Crump; music: Howard Jackson | © November 8, 1941 | ship travelogue edited from a British documentary |
| Then and Now | music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Knox Manning | © December 24, 1941 | documentary on trains and autos |
| Wedding Yells | narration written by: Joel Malone and Rich Hall; narrator: Jack Carson | March 7, 1942 | re-edit of Mack Sennett's silent Down on the Farm |
| Ring of Steel | director: Garson Kanin; narrator: Spencer Tracy | April 2, 1942 | military short |
| There Ain't No Such Animal | producers/directors: Joel Maline & Rich Hall; music: William Lava; narrator: Knox Manning | May 9, 1942 | Visits Australia's Great Barrier Reef |
| This Is Your Enemy | credited: Archibald MacLeish; music: Howard Jackson & William Lava; narrator: Knox Manning | January 23, 1943 | footage of the Nazi invasion of Poland |
| Stars on Horseback | producer: Myron J. Schwartz; music: William Lava; narrator: Lou Marcelle | April 3, 1943 | DVD release: Old Acquaintance (Greatest Classic Legends Bette Davis). Showcases George Garfield, blacksmith for Hollywood |
| Happy Times and Jolly Moments | narration written by: James Bloodworth; narrator: Lou Marcelle | July 10, 1943 | vintage Sennett material |
| Bees A'Buzzin' | producer: Gordon Hollingshead; director: Roger Q. Denny; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Lou Marcelle | September 18, 1943 | Made with the association of the International Bees Producers Association. |
| Our Alaskan Frontier | director: Carl Dudley; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Lou Marcelle | November 6, 1943 | travelogue |
| The Struggle for Life | director: Roger Q. Denny; music: Rex Dunn; narrator: Art Gilmore | March 4, 1944 | edited from a Soviet nature documentary |
| Jungle Thrills | director: Roger Q. Denny; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Lou Marcelle | April 15, 1944 | |
| Road to Victory | producer: Gordon Hollingshead; director: Le Roy Prinz | May 13, 1944 | Semi-promotional for Fifth War Loan Campaign |
| Throwing the Bull | director: Augustin Delgado; narrator: James A. Fitzpatrick | July 29, 1944 | A Mexican bullfight. |
| Their Dizzy Day | director: Mervyn Freeman; story: Roger Q. Denny; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: George O'Hanlon | September 2, 1944 | A day with four lion cubs. This and subsequent 1944-45 titles were marketed as "Vitaphone Varieties" |
| Ski-Whizz | producer: Blackwood Grant; director: Alan Francis Corby; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Art Gilmore | October 7, 1944 | ski reel |
| Once Over Lightly | narration written by: James Bloodworth; narrator: George O'Hanlon | October 14, 1944 | vintage Sennett material |
| Overseas Roundup #1 | music: Howard Jackson & William Lava | March 17, 1945 | Covers news from the war front. A Nazi submarine is attacked / military recreation at Bougainville / Persian transport of goods to Soviet forces / Merrill's Marauders in Burma / Hollywood entertainers overseas |
| Overseas Roundup #2 | May 26, 1945 | Segments: life on a troopship / rat-catching in the tropical Pacific / the medical corps in action / an Australian rodeo | |
| Overseas Roundup #3 | July 14, 1945 (previewed May 19) | Segments: a helicopter saving stranded Marines / how coffee is supplied to troops / Chinese soldiers in training / GI salutes on the radio | |
| Alice in Jungleland | director: Marjorie Freeman; music: Rex Dunn; narrator: Marvin Miller | September 22, 1945 | |
| Story of a Dog | producer: Gordon Hollingshead; director: Saul Elkins; music: William Lava; narrator: Knox Manning | October 27, 1945 | Nominee for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, available on DVD for San Antonio (film). A Doberman Pinscher trains for Coast Guard War Unit at Curtis Bay, Maryland. |
| Good Old Corn | narration written by: Saul Elkins; film editor: Everett A. Dodd; music: William Lava; sound: Charles David Forrest; narrator: Knox Manning | November 24, 1945 | vintage Mack Sennett and Larry Semon material |
| Peeks at Hollywood | producer: Gene Lester; director: Irving Applebaum; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Knox Manning | January 26, 1946 | on DVD San Antonio (film). Hollywood celebrities are seen by two ladies from Griffith Observatory. |
| Smart as a Fox | producer: Gordon Hollingshead; story: Saul Elkins; music: William Lava; camera: Viktor Asmus; narrator: Knox Manning | April 27, 1946 | Life of a fox in a Soviet forest. Nominee for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film |
| Pie in the Eye | music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Art Gilmore | December 24, 1948 | vintage Sennett material |
| Just For Fun | Narration written by: Charles Tedford; narrator: Art Gilmore | April 1949 | adapted from Larry Semon and Mack Sennett comedies |
| Horse and Buggy Days | producer: Gordon Hollingshead; director: Owen Crump; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Art Gilmore | October 21, 1949 | |
| Those Who Dance | producer: Gordon Hollingshead; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Art Gilmore | December 1949 | |
| Hands Tell the Story | directors: Hal Seeger & Edwin Kasper; music: William Lava; narrator: Art Gilmore | February 4, 1950 | |
| Slap Happy | music: William Lava; narrator: Art Gilmore | October 14, 1950 (completed 1948) | footage of Ben Turpin with Mack Sennett in the 1920s |
| Animal Antics | music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Art Gilmore | January 20, 1951 | vintage Sennett material |
| The Naughty Twenties | Charles Tedford (director) | February 10, 1951 | includes clips of Van & Schenck & Willie and Eugene Howard |
| Anything For Laughs | music: Howard Jackson & William Lava; narrator: George O'Hanlon | April 21, 1951 | re-edit of Larry Semon's silent The Show (1922 Vitagraph). |
| To Bee or Not to Bee | music: William Lava; narrator: Art Gilmore; | September 15, 1951 | re-edit of Fatty Arbuckle in Buzzin' Around. |
| Stop, Look and Laugh | music: William Lava | October 20, 1951 | re-edit of Larry Semon's silent The Saw Mill (1921 Vitagraph). |
| Ain't Rio Grand? | director: James Bloodworth; music: William Lava; narrator: Art Gilmore | December 2, 1951 | re-edit of Larry Semon's silent Well I'll Be (1919 Vitagraph). |
| Songs of All Nations | producer: Gordon Hollingshead; director: Jack Scholl | February 16, 1952 | |
| Orange Blossoms for Violet | directors: Friz Freleng & Chuck Jones; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Robert C. Bruce with Mel Blanc & Bea Benaderet | May 24, 1952 | featured on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, culled from Hal Roach 1923 "Dippy Dood-Dad" series. |
| Here We Go Again | director: Charles L. Tedford; music: Howard Jackson; narrator: Art Gilmore | © November 15, 1952 | edited from a 1921 Mack Sennett First National comedy, Hard Knocks and Love Taps starring Charlie Murray |
| Hit 'Im Again | narration by: Charles L. Tedford; edited by: DeLeon Anthony; music: Howard Jackson; narrated by: Art Gilmore; sound: David Forrest | September 5, 1953 | re-edit of Larry Semon's silent Horseshoes (1923 Vitagraph).[10] |
See also
[edit]- List of vaudeville performers: A-K (many appearing in the films)
- List of vaudeville performers: L-Z
- Sound film
- Vitaphone
- Warner Bros.
- List of short subjects by Hollywood studio#Warner Brothers
Notes
[edit]- ^ Liebman, Roy. Vitaphone Films – A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts. 2003. McFarland & Company, p. 13
- ^ Patrick J. Picking. "The Vitaphone Project!". picking.com. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
- ^ Maltin, Leonard. The Great Movie Shorts. 1972. Bonanza Books, p. 22
- ^ Koszarski, Richard. Hollywood On the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. 2008. Rutgers University Press, p. 157
- ^ Liebman, Roy. Vitaphone Films – A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts. 2003. McFarland & Company
- ^ "Film Daily archives". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
- ^ Motion Pictures 1912–1939 Catalog of Copyright Entries. 1951. Library of Congress
- ^ Hall, Morduant (August 7, 1926). "Vitaphone Stirs as Talking Movie". The New York Times.
- ^ Motion Picture Herald magazine, "Release Chart Lists", December 26, 1931 (p. 73)
- ^ Roy Liebman, Vitaphone Films – A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts p. 312
References
[edit]- Bradley, Edwin M. (2005). The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786410309.
- Koszarski, Richard (2008). Hollywood On the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813542935.
- Liebman, Roy (2003). Vitaphone Films – A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786412792.
- Maltin, Leonard (1972). The Great Movie Shorts. Bonanza Books. ISBN 9780517504550.
- Motion Pictures 1912–1939 Catalog of Copyright Entries 1951 Library of Congress [1]
- Motion Pictures 1940–1949 Catalog of Copyright Entries 1953 Library of Congress [2]
- Motion Pictures 1950–1959 Catalog of Copyright Entries 1960 Library of Congress [3]
- BoxOffice back issue scans available