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.
Made in US
7/10
1946
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Cast
John Barrymore
As Don Juan (archive footage)
James Cagney
As Tommy Powers (archive footage)
Anna Case
As
Thomas A. Edison
As
Mischa Elman
As
William H. Hays
As
Al Jolson
As
Giovanni Martinelli
As
Edward G. Robinson
As
Roy Smeck
As
Marion Talley
As
Jack L. Warner
As
Efrem Zimbalist Sr.
As Violinist
Mary Astor
As Adriana (archive footage)
Harold Bauer
As
Truman Bradley
As
Jack Carson
As
Dane Clark
As
John Garfield
As
Paul Henreid
As
Davey Lee
As
John Litel
As
Ida Lupino
As
Dennis Morgan
As
Franklin D. Roosevelt
As
Ann Sheridan
As
Alexis Smith
As
Kent Smith
As
Martha Vickers
As
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