The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

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.

Release date

Sep 2, 2007

Rating

7 / 10

Runtime

1 hours 25 minutes

Genres

Documentary
History

Cast

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

Crew

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

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