The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

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.

Full Cast of The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

Mark Hunt

as Narrator (voice)

Scott Eyman

as Self

Jonathan Kuntz

as Self
Ben Burtt as Self

Ben Burtt

as Self

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. (born July 12, 1948) is an American sound designer ...

Leonard Maltin as Self

Leonard Maltin

as Self

Leonard Michael Maltin (born December 18, 1950) is an American film critic and film historian, as well as an author o...

Sanford Green

as Self
Mickey Rooney as Self

Mickey Rooney

as Self

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was a...

Mark Vieira

as Self

Suzanne Lloyd Hayes

as Self

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