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The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

2007    85m
8
The nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures is the backdrop for this insightful documentary. Film historians, and survivors from the era take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the joined forces of Western Electric and Warner Bros. who, with their Vitaphone process,revolutionized the entertainment industry, perhaps more than any time before or since.
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Cast of The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
  • Mark HuntNarrator (voice)
  • Scott EymanSelf
  • Rudy BehlmerSelf
  • Robert GittSelf
  • Jonathan KuntzSelf
  • A.C. LylesSelf
  • Benjamin A. BurttSelf
  • Leonard MaltinSelf
  • Vince GiordanoSelf
  • Rose MarieSelf
  • Dane A. DavisSelf
  • Sanford GreenSelf
  • Mickey RooneySelf
  • Leatrice Joy GilbertSelf
  • Mark VieiraSelf
  • Suzanne Lloyd HayesSelf
  • Charlie ChaplinSelf (archive footage)
  • Buster KeatonSelf (archive footage)
  • Clark GableSelf (archive footage)
  • Al JolsonSelf (archive footage)

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