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Auction History Result 6j0044 WEARY RIVER record 1929 rare Warner Bros Vitaphone movie soundtrack sound-on-disc! Date Sold 5/7/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1929 Movie Music Soundtrack Record (measures 16" x 16" [41 x 41 cm]; 1 record) (Learn More) Weary River, the 1929 Frank Lloyd (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) prison crime rehabilitation music songwriting melodrama ("Richard Barthelmess puts his soul to music in Weary River"; it seems like an early gangster movie, but with a really unusual twist; Barthelmess is a gangster and Compson is his girl, and he goes to prison, and while there, he discovers a talent for songwriting, and when he is released, he writes a hit song, and his girlfriend stays away from him for fear of causing him to relapse into crime, but when he might make a terrible decision, she returns and steers him straight; this may sound very far fetched, but it was based on a real life story!) starring Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, William Holden (no, not THAT William Holden, but another actor of the same name who made 20 movies between 1920 and 1931, and he died the next year, which was 7 years before the more famous William Holden made his first movie!), Louis Natheaux, George E. Stone, Ray Turner, Gladden James, Bob Kortman, and Blue Washington NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a rare Warner Bros Vitaphone sound-on-disc! Vitaphone was the sound film system used for feature films and short subjects made by Warner Bros. and First National from 1926 to 1931. It was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one which was widely used and commercially successful. It was first used when Warner Bros. premiered Don Juan, the 1926 movie with John Barrymore in the lead role at the Grauman's Egyptian Theatre (later the Grauman's Chinese Theatre). The discs were somewhat notorious for synchronization issues, because if it was bumped, the sound would go out of sync (famously spoofed in MGM's 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain!). This particular disc is for "Weary River". Note also that this disc's label has a box on it with 20 squares. Each time the disc was played, the projectionist would check a box. After 20 plays the disc would be discarded as it would have too many scratches. Finally note that this disc must be sent in a flat package. Please bear this added expense in mind before bidding on this item. Condition: very good. The disc appears to be in nice condition with only a few scratches and smudges. We of course have no way to actually play this heavy disc, so we do not know if it can be played, but it has no cracks or other major defects. Please bear all of this in mind before bidding on this rare Vitaphone disc. Learn More about condition grades 
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