Okay for Sound
Okay for Sound
Release: 1946-09-07
·Runtime: 20m
·★ 5.0
History
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
Jack L. Warner
Jack Carson
Alexis Smith
James Cagney
as Tommy Powers (archive footage)
Ann Sheridan
John Barrymore
as Don Juan (archive footage)
Martha Vickers
Anna Case
Mischa Elman
John Garfield
Kent Smith
William H. Hays
Giovanni Martinelli
Edward G. Robinson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thomas A. Edison
Mary Astor
as Adriana (archive footage)
John Litel
Ida Lupino
Marion Talley
Truman Bradley
Dane Clark
Davey Lee
Paul Henreid
Dennis Morgan
Al Jolson