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.

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that...

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with fami...

A nobleman bribes a maidservant to gain access to the palace and poison the crown prince. Another no...

The aging Zhao embarks on his final and greatest campaign, a road to adventure that will crown his n...

2nd Edition of Loose Change documentary. What if...September 11th was not a surprise attack on Ameri...

film about the desire of listening. An intermingling of voices from childhood, dreams, history, sex ...

Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight...

Hokkaido, the North Island of Japan, is a powder-lover's paradise. If you’ve never been, it’s time t...
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journ...

A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's p...

An examination of why the James Bond films have proved so popular including a discussion between the...

Jonathan Ross delves into the world of James Bond and meets with new and former cast members who rev...

Manuel Horrillo has visited for 7 years the fields where the clashes between the Spanish troops and ...

Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career v...

When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversati...

A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly nam...