Film

Okay for Sound

1946 · 20m · History · Documentary

IMDb

6.1

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.

John Barrymore

Don Juan (archive footage)

James Cagney

Tommy Powers (archive footage)

Anna Case

Thomas A. Edison

Mischa Elman

William H. Hays

Al Jolson

Giovanni Martinelli

Edward G. Robinson

Roy Smeck

Marion Talley

Jack L. Warner

Efrem Zimbalist Sr.

Violinist

Mary Astor

Adriana (archive footage)

Harold Bauer

Truman Bradley

• Gordon HollingsheadProducer

Release date

September 7, 1946

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

20m

Genres

History, Documentary

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