Directed by Jean Negulesco
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.
Art Gilmore
Narrator (voice)
Sheldon Jett
Audience Member (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Edwin Tuttle
Giovanni Martinelli
Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)
George Arliss
Hello-Goodbye
1970
The Invincible Six
The Pleasure Seekers
1964
Jessica
1962
O Som, ou Tratado de Harmonia
1984
The Profligate Door: Borowczyk's Sound Sculptures
2014
Okay for Sound
1946
Everybody's Cage
2015
Parc Central
2006
Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
John Barrymore
Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Eugenie Besserer
Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
James Cagney
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Jeanne Cagney
Gary Cooper
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
The Best of Everything
1959
Count Your Blessings
A Certain Smile
1958
The Gift of Love
Boy on a Dolphin
1957
The Dark Wave
1956
Daddy Long Legs
1955
The Rains of Ranchipur
Actors of Sound
2016
Soundtracker
2010
Melody of Noise
Absence of Me
2019
Sonic Sea
KanZeOn
2011
A Quiet Place
2018