Okay for Sound
1946-09-07 | 20 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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John BarrymoreDon Juan (archive footage)
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James CagneyTommy Powers (archive footage)
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Anna Case
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Thomas A. Edison
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Mischa Elman
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William H. Hays
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Al Jolson
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Giovanni Martinelli
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Edward G. Robinson
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Marion Talley
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Jack L. Warner
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Mary AstorAdriana (archive footage)
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Truman Bradley
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Jack Carson
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Dane Clark
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John Garfield
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Paul Henreid
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