October 2010
Watchjamesurbaniak:
First film I ever did: Hal Hartley’s “Opera No. 1,” shot in ‘94. Also featuring Patricia Dunnock, Parker Posey and the late, luminescent Adrienne Shelly. Made for a Comedy Central special of music-related shorts (of all things). We’re all lip-syncing other people’s vocals, BTW.
Originally I was going to append to this reblog my Grand Unified Hal Hartley Theory, in which I divide...
more on Vitaphone shorts
Vitaphone was a Brooklyn division of Warner’s that produced the studio’s first talkies, including “The Jazz Singer.” (Vitaphone was also the copyrighted name for Warner’s proprietary sound technology, naturally.)
In addition to Warner’s early sound features, Vitaphone also produced, from 1926 to 1930, nearly two thousand single-reel talkies, and they are all...
