When Ron Hutchinson and fellow early talkie enthusiasts started The Vitaphone Project in 1991, little did they suspect this effort would eventually lead to 150 shorts being made available for public ...

All surviving negative and positive materials for “Hello Pop” — a Three Stooges short in early two-color Technicolor that MGM released in September, 1933 — were believed destroyed in a 1967 vault fire ...

Best extra: An educational commentary with film historian Ron Hutchinson, co-founder of The Vitaphone Project, and music historian Vince Giordano IT’S CONSIDERED the biggest game changer in motion ...

Ron Hutchinson, an ebullient film buff who led a campaign to restore scores of largely forgotten short sound films from the 1920s and ‘30s that featured comedians, vaudevillians, opera singers and ...

*A lot of tall-grass detail here. https://hometownstohollywood.com/editorials/sights-and-sounds-reunited-the-vitaphone-project/ "Although short subject films have ...

United by their passion for old films and vintage music, Hutchinson and four like-minded friends created the Vitaphone Project in 1991 with an ambitious mission. They set out to preserve the one-reel ...