Okay for Sound

Okay for Sound

50% | Sep 07, 1946 | History, Documentary

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.

Featured Cast

Gordon Hollingshead
Producer

Cast

Don Juan (archive footage)
John Barrymore
Don Juan (archive footage)
Tommy Powers (archive footage)
James Cagney
Tommy Powers (archive footage)

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