Don Juan

(noun)

"Don Juan" (1926) is a Warner Bros film, directed by Alan Crosland. It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue.

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  • The Culture of the Roaring Twenties

    • The first feature-length motion picture with a soundtrack, Don Juan, was released in 1926.

  • Cinema

    • The first all-color feature, "The Toll of the Sea," was released in 1922, with the next big leap coming in 1926 with the Warner Brothers Pictures (later shortened to Warner Bros.) release of "Don Juan," the first feature with sound effects and music.

  • The Silo D'Oro

    • Philip II engaged the Spanish architect, Juan Bautista de Toledo, to be his collaborator in the design of El Escorial.
    • Regarded by many as one of the finest works in any language, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes was the first novel published in Europe.
    • Don Quixote resembled both the medieval, chivalric romances of an earlier time and the novels of the early modern world.
    • Other well-known playwrights of the period include: Tirso de Molina; Agustín Moreto; Juan Pérez de Montalbán; Juan Ruiz de Alarcón; Guillén de Castro and Antonio Mira de Amescua.
    • Mystical literature in Spanish reached its summit with the works of San Juan de la Cruz and Teresa of Ávila.

  • Spanish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

    • Leading exponents included Fernando Gallego, Bartolome Bermejo, Pedro Berruguete and Juan de Flandes.
    • Important Mannerist artists included Vicente Juan Masip (1475–1550) and his son Juan de Juanes (1510–1579), the painter and architect Pedro Machuca (1490–1550), and Juan Correa de Vivar (1510–1566).

  • Spanish Architecture in the Northern Renaissance

    • From the mid 16th century, under such architects as Pedro Machuca, Juan Bautista de Toledo, and Juan de Herrera, there was a much closer adherence to the art of ancient Rome, sometimes anticipating Mannerism.
    • A new style emerged in Spain with the work of Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera in the Escorial, known as the Herrerian style.

  • The Responding Stage

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    • They included Henry, who moved from Louisiana last year after Hurricane Katrina, Suzanne who loves hip-hop music, Nia, who loves to write, and Juan who enjoys comic books and likes to draw.
    • Juan gladly volunteered to take on the creation of the puppets.

  • Sacrifices

    • The Eucharist has been a key theme in the depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art, as in this 16th-century Juan de Juanes painting.

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  • The Spanish-American War

    • Success is credited to sheer numerical superiority in most of the battles, despite the admirable performance of some Spanish infantry units, and spirited defenses in places like San Juan Hill.