The Voice That Thrilled the World

1943-10-16

⭐ 5.3🕒 18 mins

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.

#History#Documentary

Narrator (voice)
Art Gilmore
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Audience Member (uncredited)
Sheldon Jett
Audience Member (uncredited)
Harold Miller
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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
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Self (archive footage)
Harry M. Warner
Self (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Ethel Waters