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.
James Bloodworth
Writer
Jean Negulesco
Director
Art Gilmore
Narrator (voice)
Sheldon Jett
Audience Member (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Audience Member (uncredited)
Edwin Tuttle
Audience Member (uncredited)
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)
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound68%
Being James Bond77%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
The Skywalker Legacy78%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Supersonic73%
The Velvet Underground67%
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey77%
A Plastic Ocean75%
That's Entertainment!73%
I Know That Voice71%
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert82%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Room 23761%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me84%
Night Will Fall76%
Piece by Piece72%
McQueen74%
