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)
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Visions of Light
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)
Being James Bond
The Director and the Jedi
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
The Velvet Underground
The Skywalker Legacy
Supersonic
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Seduced and Abandoned
The Sound of 007
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
Red Army
And the Oscar Goes To...
I Know That Voice
Joy Division
A Plastic Ocean
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing
Wormwood
I Am Heath Ledger