The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007)
• September 2nd, 2007 • 1h 25min
Documentary, History
Overview
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.
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