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
John Garfield
Ida Lupino
Ann Sheridan
Anna Case
Mischa Elman
Dane Clark
John Litel
James Cagney
as Tommy Powers (archive footage)
Al Jolson
Davey Lee
Martha Vickers
Truman Bradley
Paul Henreid
Alexis Smith
Kent Smith
Marion Talley
Jack L. Warner
Dennis Morgan
Edward G. Robinson
Mary Astor
as Adriana (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Barrymore
as Don Juan (archive footage)
William H. Hays
Jack Carson
Thomas A. Edison
Giovanni Martinelli