A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Cast: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Henry Hadley [himself, the conductor]

The Vitaphone Corporation production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Cinematography by [?] Ed H. DuPar (Edwin B. DuPar)? / Premiered 6 August 1926 at the Warners Theatre in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The production was shot at the Manhattan Opera House in New York, New York. The orchestra totalled 107 musicians during filming. Vitaphone production number 0314. The film was a short subject in the Vitaphone program which featured Don Juan (1926). / Full-sound film.

Performance: Orchestral performance.

Synopsis: Overture from Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner.

Survival status: Print exists [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Early sound film - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 14 December 2024.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Geduld-Birth pp. 119, 124-127; Maltin-Selected p. 22 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.