The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

7.0

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.

Discover

Mark Hunt

Narrator (voice)

Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Buster Keaton

Self (archive footage)

Clark Gable

Self (archive footage)

Al Jolson

Self (archive footage)

Camera

Dan Brockett

Director of Photography

Editing

Production

Eric Neal Young

Executive Producer

Sound

Writing

Tim Prokop

Writer

Camera

Dan Brockett

Director of Photography

Editing

Production

Eric Neal Young

Executive Producer

Sound

Writing

Tim Prokop

Writer