Okay for Sound 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.

Cast

John Barrymore

James Cagney

Anna Case

Thomas A. Edison

Mischa Elman

William H. Hays

Al Jolson

Giovanni Martinelli

Edward G. Robinson

Roy Smeck

Marion Talley

Jack L. Warner

Efrem Zimbalist Sr.

Mary Astor

Harold Bauer

Truman Bradley

Jack Carson

Dane Clark

John Garfield

Paul Henreid

Davey Lee

John Litel

Ida Lupino

Dennis Morgan

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ann Sheridan

Alexis Smith

Kent Smith

Martha Vickers