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The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007)

September 2, 2007Documentary, History1h 25m

Overview

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.

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