
07/09/1946
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.

John Barrymore
as Don Juan (archive footage)

James Cagney
as Tommy Powers (archive footage)

Anna Case
as

Thomas A. Edison
as

Mischa Elman
as

William H. Hays
as

Al Jolson
as

Giovanni Martinelli
as

Edward G. Robinson
as

Roy Smeck
as

Marion Talley
as

Jack L. Warner
as

Efrem Zimbalist Sr.
as Violinist

Mary Astor
as Adriana (archive footage)

Harold Bauer
as

Truman Bradley
as

Jack Carson
as

Dane Clark
as

John Garfield
as

Paul Henreid
as

Davey Lee
as

John Litel
as

Ida Lupino
as

Dennis Morgan
as

Franklin D. Roosevelt
as

Ann Sheridan
as

Alexis Smith
as

Kent Smith
as

Martha Vickers
as
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