Okay for Sound


1946-09-07


5
20 min

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.

Cast

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