The Voice That Thrilled the World

The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)

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.

5.3

Release Date: 1943-10-16
Runtime: 0h 18min
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Country: United States of America
Director: Jean Negulesco

Watch The Voice That Thrilled the World Online

No streaming options found at this moment.

Cast

Art Gilmore

Narrator (voice)
Sheldon Jett

Audience Member (uncredited)
Harold Miller

Audience Member (uncredited)
Edwin Tuttle

Audience Member (uncredited)
Giovanni Martinelli

Canio in 'Pagliacci' (segment 'Vesti la giubba') (archive footage)
George Arliss

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
John Barrymore

Self (segments 'Don Juan' & 'Richard III') (archive footage)
Eugenie Besserer

Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
James Cagney

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Jeanne Cagney

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Gary Cooper

Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Bette Davis

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
Rosemary DeCamp

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Robert Elliott

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Walter Huston

Jerry Cohan (archive footage)
Josephine Hutchinson

Self (segment 'The Story of Louis Pasteur') (archive footage)
Al Jolson

Self (segment 'The Jazz Singer') (archive footage)
Cullen Landis

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Joan Leslie

Self (segment 'Yankee Doodle Dandy') (archive footage)
Paul Muni

Self ('Story of Pasteur' & 'Life of Zola') (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)
Eugene Pallette

Self (segment 'Lights of New York') (archive footage)
Stanley Ridges

Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Franchot Tone

Self (segment 'Dangerous') (archive footage)
David Torrence

Self (segment 'Disraeli') (archive footage)
Harry M. Warner

Self (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner

Self (archive footage)
Ethel Waters

Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)

Related Movies

Okay for Sound

1946
Everybody's Cage

2015
Sonic Sea

2016
Melody of Noise

2016
Absence of Me

2019
O Som, ou Tratado de Harmonia

1984
Parc Central

2006
The Profligate Door: Borowczyk's Sound Sculptures

2014
Soundtracker

2010
KanZeOn

2011
Actors of Sound

2016
How Does Sound Sound?

1988
Plane Crazy

1929
Sounds Good

2019
The Shout

1978
A Quiet Place Part II

2021
The Sound of Light

2016
Silent

2014
A Quiet Place

2018
Listen

2017