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Cast
Art Gilmore | As: Narrator (voice) | |
Sheldon Jett | As: Audience Member (uncredited) | |
Harold Miller | As: Audience Member (uncredited) | |
Edwin Tuttle | As: Audience Member (uncredited) | |
Giovanni Martinelli | As: Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage) |
Storyline
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.
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Cast
Art Gilmore |
Narrator (voice) |
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Sheldon Jett |
Audience Member (uncredited) |
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Harold Miller |
Audience Member (uncredited) |
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Edwin Tuttle |
Audience Member (uncredited) |
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Giovanni Martinelli |
Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage) |
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George Arliss |
Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage) |
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John Barrymore |
Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage) |
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Eugenie Besserer |
Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage) |
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James Cagney |
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage) |
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Jeanne Cagney |
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage) |
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Gary Cooper |
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage) |
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Bette Davis |
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage) |
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Rosemary DeCamp |
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage) |
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Robert Elliott |
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage) |
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Walter Huston |
Jerry Cohan (archive footage) |
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Josephine Hutchinson |
Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage) |
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Al Jolson |
Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage) |
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Cullen Landis |
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage) |
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Joan Leslie |
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage) |
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Paul Muni |
Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage) |
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Benito Mussolini |
Self (archive footage) |
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Eugene Pallette |
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage) |
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Stanley Ridges |
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage) |
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Franchot Tone |
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage) |
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David Torrence |
Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage) |
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Harry M. Warner |
Self (archive footage) |
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Jack L. Warner |
Self (archive footage) |
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Ethel Waters |
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage) |
Directed By
Jean Negulesco |
Director |
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Writing Credits
James Bloodworth |
Writer |
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Production Crew
Gordon Hollingshead |
Producer |
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Edited By
Thomas Pratt |
Editor |
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Costume and Makeup
Sound
Howard Jackson |
Music |
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Visual Effects
Camera
Sidney Hickox |
Director of Photography |
Lighting
Art Department
Roland E. Hill Sr. |
Art Direction |
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Other Crew
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