The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
2007, English.
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.
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- 1h 25m
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- English
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- Released
- 2 September 2007
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Tim Prokop, Robert S. Bader
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