The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943-10-16This 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.

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.

Narrator (voice)
Art Gilmore
Audience Member (uncredited)
Sheldon Jett

Audience Member (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Audience Member (uncredited)
Edwin Tuttle

Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)
Giovanni Martinelli

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
George Arliss

Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
John Barrymore

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

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

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

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

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Bette Davis

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

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

Jerry Cohan (archive footage)
Walter Huston

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

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

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

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

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

Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini

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

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

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Franchot Tone

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
David Torrence
Self (archive footage)
Harry M. Warner

Self (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner

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