Who began producing films first, Bryan Foy or Alexandra Shiva?
Alexandra Shiva Alexandra Elizabeth Shiva is an American film producer and director. "Bombay Eunuch" is her 2001 award-winning film, and in 2015 she showed "How to Dance in Ohio" at the Sundance Film Festival in the US Documentary Competition. Shiva also founded a production studio called Gidalya Pictures.
Lights of New York (1928 film) Lights of New York is a 1928 American crime drama film starring Helene Costello, Cullen Landis and Eugene Pallette, and directed by Bryan Foy. Filmed in the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system, it is the first all-talking full-length feature film, released by Warner Bros., who had introduced the first feature-length with sound "The Jazz Singer" in the previous year. The film, which cost $23,000 to produce ("B" picture), grossed over $1,000,000. The enthusiasm with which audiences greeted the talkies was so great that by the end of 1929, Hollywood was producing sound films exclusively.