The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
September 2, 2007•1h 25m•★ 7.0
DocumentaryHistory
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.
Writers
Cast
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Scott Eyman
Self
Rudy Behlmer
Self
Robert Gitt
Self
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Jonathan Kuntz
Self
A.C. Lyles
Self
Ben Burtt
Self
Leonard Maltin
Self
Vince Giordano
Self
Rose Marie
Self
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Dane A. Davis
Self
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Sanford Green
Self
Mickey Rooney
Self
Leatrice Joy Gilbert
Self
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Mark Vieira
Self
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Suzanne Lloyd Hayes
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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Mark Hunt
Narrator (voice)