Sep 02, 2007
85 min
Full-HD

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.

Mark Hunt

Narrator (voice)

Scott Eyman

Self

Rudy Behlmer

Self

Robert Gitt

Self

Jonathan Kuntz

Self

A.C. Lyles

Self

Ben Burtt

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Leonard Maltin

Self

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