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Make byFabrizio Nucci
Okay for Sound

Okay for Sound

1946

5

Categories:

  • History
  • Documentary

Overview:

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.

Gordon Hollingshead

Producer

Cast:

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  • John Barrymore

    John Barrymore

    Don Juan (archive foot...
  • James Cagney

    James Cagney

    Tommy Powers (archive ...
  • Anna Case

    Anna Case

  • Thomas A. Edison

    Thomas A. Edison

  • Mischa Elman

    Mischa Elman

  • William H. Hays

    William H. Hays