Oct 15, 2021
60 min
Full-HD

Cinema Finds Its Voice (2021)

The story of how sound was paired with images in early years of cinema; offering an in-depth look at the people behind-the-scenes and the technological innovations that culminated in Warner Brothers' ground breaking film, "The Jazz Singer" (1927).

Category

Documentary History

Country

France

Companies

Steamboat Films

Leonard Maltin

Narrator

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