The Voice That Thrilled the World

18m

History Documentary

5.3

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.

Cast

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)

Jeanne Cagney

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)

Bette Davis

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

Rosemary DeCamp

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Robert Elliott

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

Walter Huston

Jerry Cohan (archive footage)

Josephine Hutchinson

Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)

Al Jolson

Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)

Cullen Landis

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

Joan Leslie

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)

Paul Muni

Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)

Eugene Pallette

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)

Stanley Ridges

Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)

Franchot Tone

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)

David Torrence

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)

Harry M. Warner

Self (archive footage)

Jack L. Warner

Self (archive footage)

Ethel Waters

Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)

Crew

Jean Negulesco

Director

James Bloodworth

Writer

Thomas Pratt

Editor

Sidney Hickox

Director of Photography

Gordon Hollingshead

Producer

Howard Jackson

Music

Roland E. Hill Sr.

Art Direction