Okay for Sound
Okay for Sound

Okay for Sound

1946-09-07| 20 min

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.

Genres

HistoryDocumentary

Cast

John Barrymore

John Barrymore

James Cagney

James Cagney

Anna Case

Anna Case

Thomas A. Edison

Thomas A. Edison

Mischa Elman

Mischa Elman

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