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