Okay for Sound (1946)
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
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John Barrymore as Don Juan (archive footage) |
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James Cagney as Tommy Powers (archive footage) |
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Anna Case as |
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Thomas A. Edison as |
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Mischa Elman as |
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William H. Hays as |
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Al Jolson as |
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Giovanni Martinelli as |
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Edward G. Robinson as |
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Roy Smeck as |
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Marion Talley as |
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Jack L. Warner as |
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Efrem Zimbalist Sr. as Violinist |
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Mary Astor as Adriana (archive footage) |
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Harold Bauer as |
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Truman Bradley as |
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Jack Carson as |
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Dane Clark as |
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John Garfield as |
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Paul Henreid as |
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Davey Lee as |
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John Litel as |
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Ida Lupino as |
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Dennis Morgan as |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt as |
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Ann Sheridan as |
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Alexis Smith as |
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Kent Smith as |
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Martha Vickers as |
| Production | Gordon Hollingshead | Producer |