The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

1h 25m
DocumentaryHistory
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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

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

Crew

Robert S. Bader
Writer, Producer
Tim Prokop
Writer
John Fitzpatrick
Editor
Dan Brockett
Director of Photography
Eric Neal Young
Executive Producer
John Massari
Music

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