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The Vitaphone Corporation
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Type of Company
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Production company
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Country of Origination
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United States of America
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Years of Operation
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Active 1926 through 194?
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Company Principals
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Harry Warner
Sam Warner
Jack L. Warner
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Company Offices
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unknown
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Company Studios
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[?] New York, New York, USA?
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The Vitaphone Corporation was formed in April 1926 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, in partnership with Western Electric to produce and exploit the Western Electric sound-on-disc synchronized sound film system, dubbed the Vitaphone sound film process, in 1926.
A branch office was located at 1219 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
References: Brownlow-Parade pp. 569, 570, 571, 574; LoC-MoPic-2 p. 24.
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[The Film Daily, 4 January 1929, page 1] Continued Delay in Case of Vitaphone Versus W.E. / Illness of Samuel Untermeyer, one of the arbitrators, is continuing delay hearings in complaint brought by Vitaphone against Western Electric, charging needless delay in installation of equipment and maintaining prices at too high a level.
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