
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.

John Barrymore
Don Juan (archive footage)

James Cagney
Tommy Powers (archive footage)

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.
Violinist

Mary Astor
Adriana (archive footage)

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

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock

Vivement Truffaut

Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul

In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema

Ver a Hilda Vera

The James Dean Story

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

Calle Bardem

Cotton Mill, Treadmill

The Wave

Salò: Fade to Black

Factory Girl

Ensemble

The Pixar Story

Roundhay Garden Scene

The Devils

Rif 1921, una historia olvidada

Christina Lindberg: The Original Eyepatch Wearing Butt Kicking Movie Babe

Battleship Potemkin

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory