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The Voice That Thrilled the World

53 %|Oct 16, 1943|History, Documentary

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.

Featured Crew

Gordon Hollingshead
Producer
James Bloodworth
Writer
Roland E. Hill Sr.
Art Direction
Thomas Pratt
Editor
Jean Negulesco
Director
Howard Jackson
Music
Sidney Hickox
Director of Photography

Cast

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