The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
18m
Running Time
October 16, 1943Release Date
The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
18m
Running Time
October 16, 1943Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Art Gilmore
Narrator
James Cagney
Self (segment "Yankee Doodle Dandy")
Gary Cooper
Self (segment "Sergeant York")
Edwin Tuttle
Audience Member (uncredited)
Sheldon Jett
Audience Member
Giovanni Martinelli
Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)
Jean Negulesco
Director
George Arliss
Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
James Bloodworth
Writer
John Barrymore
Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Sidney Hickox
Cinematographer
Eugenie Besserer
Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
Thomas Pratt
Editor
Joan Leslie
Self (segment "Yankee Doodle Dandy")
Jeanne Cagney
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Harold Miller
Audience Member at 'Don Juan'
Bette Davis
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Rosemary DeCamp
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Robert Elliott
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Walter Huston
Jerry Cohan (archive footage)
Josephine Hutchinson
Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
Al Jolson
Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
Cullen Landis
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Paul Muni
Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Eugene Pallette
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Stanley Ridges
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Franchot Tone
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
David Torrence
Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
Harry M. Warner
Self (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner
Self (archive footage)
Ethel Waters
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Details.
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