The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

2/9/2007 1h 25m 7.0/10

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.

Director

Top Billed Cast

A.C. Lyles

A.C. Lyles

Self

Rudy Behlmer

Rudy Behlmer

Self

Jonathan Kuntz

Self

Robert Gitt

Robert Gitt

Self

Scott Eyman

Self

Mark Hunt

Narrator (voice)

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