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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[Dr. Watson]
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Doctor Thomas A. Watson [himself]

The Vitaphone Corporation production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Watson worked on the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell. This film was preceeded by Watson’s appearance in Edison’s The Birth of the Telephone (1914). / Full-sound film.

Speech.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Early sound film - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 1 January 2025.

References: Geduld-Birth p. 112.