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.
Paul Henreid
Alexis Smith
William H. Hays
Ida Lupino
Dennis Morgan
John Litel
John Garfield
Kent Smith
Mary Astor
Adriana (archive footage)
Edward G. Robinson
Jack Carson
James Cagney
Tommy Powers (archive footage)
Dane Clark
John Barrymore
Don Juan (archive footage)
Ann Sheridan
Martha Vickers
Al Jolson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Davey Lee
Truman Bradley
Anna Case
Mischa Elman
Marion Talley
Giovanni Martinelli
Roy Smeck
Efrem Zimbalist Sr.
Violinist
Harold Bauer

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