The Voice That Thrilled the World
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Release: 1943-10-16
·Runtime: 18m
·★ 5.3
History
Documentary
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
Gary Cooper
as Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Walter Huston
as Jerry Cohan (archive footage)
Josephine Hutchinson
as Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
Joan Leslie
as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
David Torrence
as Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
Ethel Waters
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
Giovanni Martinelli
as Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)
James Cagney
as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Bette Davis
as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Robert Elliott
as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Al Jolson
as Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner
as Self (archive footage)
George Arliss
as Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
John Barrymore
as Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Cullen Landis
as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Stanley Ridges
as Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Eugenie Besserer
as Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
Jeanne Cagney
as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Rosemary DeCamp
as Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Paul Muni
as Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
as Self (archive footage)
Eugene Pallette
as Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Franchot Tone
as Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Art Gilmore
as Narrator (voice)
Harold Miller
as Audience Member (uncredited)
