Vitaphone Studios
Interior view of a musical number being performed on a sound studio at Vitaphone [motion picture] Studios located on East 15th Street, near Avenue M. Image inclused an unidentified man, presumably the conductor and a woman, presumably a singer, with a large floral arrangement between them, in the foreground and a large, male orchestra in the background.
Vitaphone Studios
The Vitagraph Studios were considered leaders in the art of the silent movie in the early years of the 20th century. Between 1898 and 1926 the studio turned out hundreds of films that enthralled audiences nationwide. Vitagraph was bought by Warner Brothers in 1925, and in 1928 they created a subsidiary that they called Vitaphone to exploit the new field of talkies. The first production was a short film showing the New York Philharmonic.
The discovery in the Eagle morgue files is a group of 8 photographs of the Vitaphone Studios dating from the 1920s and 1930s. Specializing in short movies, the Vitaphone studios often employed vaudeville stars and well-known musicians.
