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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.
The General is a 1926 American silent film released by United Artists. It was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War. The story was adapted from the 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.
British director Alfred Hitchcock's first completed and credited feature film, the melodramatic The Pleasure Garden (1925, UK), was released in the US in 1926. The silent film was made after years of Hitchcock serving as a title designer, set designer, writer, and assistant director.
Jan 18, 2016 · For character Johnnie Gray (Buster Keaton), who plays a train engineer in the 1926 film The General, love was being with his fiancée Annabelle Lee and his locomotive, The General. But one big separator threatens to end that love – the American Civil War breaks out.
1. The General. 1926 1h 18m Passed. 8.1 (99K) Rate. After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
"The General", "Faust: A German Folk Legend", "The Adventures of Prince Achmed", "A Page of Madness", & "Battling Butler" are on The Top 100 Movies of 1926 on Flickchart.
Buster Keaton's masterpiece and one of the greatest silent movies of all time was filmed in the Cottage Grove area in the summer of 1926. The General is a Civil War tale, the fictionalized account of an attempted hijacking of a Confederate train called the General by Union spies in 1862.
