This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
Art Gilmore
Narrator (voice)
Sheldon Jett
Audience Member (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Edwin Tuttle
Giovanni Martinelli
Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)
George Arliss
Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
John Barrymore
Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Eugenie Besserer
Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
James Cagney
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Jeanne Cagney
Gary Cooper
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Rosemary DeCamp
Robert Elliott
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Walter Huston
Jerry Cohan (archive footage)
Josephine Hutchinson
Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
Al Jolson
Cullen Landis
Joan Leslie
Paul Muni
Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Eugene Pallette
Stanley Ridges
Franchot Tone
David Torrence
Harry M. Warner
Jack L. Warner
Ethel Waters
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Jean Negulesco
Director
James Bloodworth
Writer
Gordon Hollingshead
Producer
Sep 7, 1946
Sep 8, 2014
Jun 19, 2006
Mar 10, 2016
Jun 4, 2016
Apr 22, 2016
Nov 22, 2019
Jun 13, 2015
Oct 25, 2019
Aug 29, 2021
Sep 17, 1992
Mar 18, 2020
Nov 5, 2000
May 3, 2022
Oct 2, 2016
Sep 1, 2019
Warner Bros. Pictures
US
United States
English