The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007)

7.0/10 85 min Documentary History

Overview

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.

Cast

Rudy Behlmer

Self

Robert Gitt

Self

A.C. Lyles

Self

Ben Burtt

Self

Leonard Maltin

Self

Vince Giordano

Self

Rose Marie

Self

Mickey Rooney

Self

Leatrice Joy Gilbert

Self

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Buster Keaton

Self (archive footage)

Clark Gable

Self (archive footage)

Al Jolson

Self (archive footage)

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