Editing 1926 in film (section)

==Events==
*February – The oldest surviving animated feature film is released in the [[Weimar Republic]], directed by [[Lotte Reiniger]]. It is called ''[[The Adventures of Prince Achmed]]'' (''Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed'').
*August 5 – [[Warner Brothers]] debuts the first [[Vitaphone]] film, ''[[Don Juan (1926 film)|Don Juan]]''. The Vitaphone system uses multiple {{frac|33|1|3}} rpm [[gramophone record]]s developed by [[Bell Labs|Bell Telephone Laboratories]] and [[Western Electric]] to play back music and sound effects synchronized with film.
*August 23 – [[Rudolph Valentino]], whose film ''[[The Son of the Sheik]]'' was currently playing, dies at the age of 31 in New York. Riots occur at the funeral parlor as thousands of people try to see his body.
*October 7 – Warner Brothers release the second Vitaphone film, ''[[The Better 'Ole (1926 film)|The Better 'Ole]]'', starring [[Sydney Chaplin]].
*December 5 – The 1925 Soviet film [[Battleship Potemkin]] premieres in the United States, at the [[Samuel J. Friedman Theatre|Biltmore Theatre]] in Manhattan.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/kinohistoryofrus00jayl#page/205/mode/2up/ |publisher=George Allen & Unwin |first=Jay |last=Leyda |title=Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film |year=1960 |pages=205 |author-link=Jay Leyda}}</ref>
*[[Theodore W. Case]] and E. I. Sponable demonstrate their sound-on-film experiments to [[William Fox (producer)|William Fox]] of the [[Fox Film Corporation]]. The Fox-Case Corp. is formed in an effort to exploit the system, which is given the name [[Movietone sound system|Movietone]]. Fox begin to create [[Movietone News]] newsreels at this time. One of the first newsreels is of [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s takeoff for Paris.
*[[Al Jolson]] films ''[[A Plantation Act]]'', one of the first unreleased talkies and a test film for ''[[The Jazz Singer]]''
*[[Ang Tatlong Hambog]] (The Three Humbugs), the first Filipino film to feature a kissing (make out) scene, is released in the Philippines.