The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

Released on
Documentary, History
Runtime
85 mins
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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

  • Mark Hunt
  • Scott Eyman
  • Rudy Behlmer
  • Robert Gitt
  • Jonathan Kuntz
  • A.C. Lyles
  • Ben Burtt
  • Leonard Maltin
  • Vince Giordano
  • Rose Marie
  • Dane A. Davis
  • Sanford Green
  • Mickey Rooney
  • Leatrice Joy Gilbert
  • Mark Vieira
  • Suzanne Lloyd Hayes
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Buster Keaton
  • Clark Gable
  • Al Jolson

Director

    Producers

    • Robert S. Bader

    Screenwriter

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