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The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk

20071h 25min
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.

GenreDocumentary, History
Production CompaniesWarner Bros. Entertainment, Sparkhill, Turner Entertainment
Production CcountriesUnited States of America

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