Okay for Sound
Overview
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.
Release date
07/09/1946
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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
Jack Carson
Dane Clark
John Garfield
Paul Henreid
Davey Lee
John Litel
Ida Lupino
Dennis Morgan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ann Sheridan
Alexis Smith
Kent Smith
Martha Vickers
Original Soundtrack
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Ensemble
The Wave
Battleship Potemkin
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
Vivement Truffaut
Le Club : Claude Jade
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
30 Years of James Bond
Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born
Chaplin Today: City Lights
Montgomery Clift
Palace of Ambition
Naturestyle: Hokkaido Japan
The Concentration Universe: Making Goto, Isle of Love
The Profligate Door: Borowczyk's Sound Sculptures
Film Is Not a Sausage: Borowczyk and the Short Film
Ballad of Imprisonment: Making Blanche
Behind Enemy Lines: Making Gunpoint
Naples Is a Battlefield
Naked Cinema