The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007)
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.
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Scott Eyman as Self |
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Rudy Behlmer as Self |
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Robert Gitt as Self |
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Jonathan Kuntz as Self |
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A.C. Lyles as Self |
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Ben Burtt as Self |
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Leonard Maltin as Self |
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Vince Giordano as Self |
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Rose Marie as Self |
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Dane A. Davis as Self |
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Sanford Green as Self |
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Mickey Rooney as Self |
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Leatrice Joy Gilbert as Self |
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Mark Vieira as Self |
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Suzanne Lloyd Hayes as Self |
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Charlie Chaplin as Self (archive footage) |
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Buster Keaton as Self (archive footage) |
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Clark Gable as Self (archive footage) |
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Al Jolson as Self (archive footage) |
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Mark Hunt as Narrator (voice) |
| Camera | Dan Brockett | Director of Photography |
| Editing | John Fitzpatrick | Editor |
| Sound | John Massari | Music |
| Production | Robert S. Bader | Producer |
| Production | Eric Neal Young | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Robert S. Bader | Writer |
| Writing | Tim Prokop | Writer |
