85 minutes
9/2/2007
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.
Mark Hunt
as Narrator (voice)
Scott Eyman
as Self

Rudy Behlmer
as Self

Robert Gitt
as Self
Jonathan Kuntz
as Self

A.C. Lyles
as Self

Ben Burtt
as Self

Leonard Maltin
as Self

Vince Giordano
as Self

Rose Marie
as Self

Dane A. Davis
as Self
Sanford Green
as Self

Mickey Rooney
as Self

Leatrice Joy Gilbert
as Self
Mark Vieira
as Self
Suzanne Lloyd Hayes
as Self

Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)

Buster Keaton
as Self (archive footage)

Clark Gable
as Self (archive footage)

Al Jolson
as Self (archive footage)