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The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943, Oct 16
0h 18m
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.
Directed by
Jean Negulesco
Written by
James Bloodworth
Bette Davis
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Gary Cooper
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Eugene Pallette
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Giovanni Martinelli
Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)
James Cagney
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Josephine Hutchinson
Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
Art Gilmore
Narrator (voice)
John Barrymore
Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Joan Leslie
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Harold Miller
Audience Member (uncredited)
George Arliss
Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
Walter Huston
Jerry Cohan (archive footage)
Rosemary DeCamp
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Paul Muni
Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)
Franchot Tone
Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Al Jolson
Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
Ethel Waters
Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Stanley Ridges
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Robert Elliott
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Jeanne Cagney
Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
David Torrence
Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
Cullen Landis
Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Eugenie Besserer
Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
Sheldon Jett
Audience Member (uncredited)
Edwin Tuttle
Audience Member (uncredited)
Harry M. Warner
Self (archive footage)
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