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
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)
Okay for Sound
Sonic Sea
Everybody's Cage
O Som, ou Tratado de Harmonia
Actors of Sound
The Profligate Door: Borowczyk's Sound Sculptures
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
In Search of the Last Action Heroes
Visions of Light
Being James Bond
The Velvet Underground
The Director and the Jedi
Absence of Me
KanZeOn
Melody of Noise
Soundtracker
Supersonic
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror