Jazz Singer Extras Disc 2
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- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsNancy WelfordConway TearleWinnie LightnerThree Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
- DirectorMax FleischerF. Lyle GoldmanStarsCarlyle EllisBilly MurrayWalter ScanlanAnimated figure Talkie gets a visit from his friend Mutie in search for a job. Talkie takes him to the Western Electric sound lab, where a technician explains the process of putting sound on film and reproducing it in the theatre.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsArt GilmoreJames CagneyGary CooperThis short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857.
- StarsJohn BarrymoreJames CagneyAnna CaseThis short was made for the express purpose of noting the 20th Anniversary of Warners' Vitaphone sound-on-film process and also was made to be released concurrently, and shown on the same bill, with Warners' Night and Day (1946). And that is what happened. If a theatre-goer saw "Night and Day" on first-run in any theatre, they also saw "Okay for Sound". Unless they arrived late, and then didn't stay for the "Extra Added Attractions".
- DirectorRobert YoungsonStarsDwight WeistJohn BarrymoreJoan BlondellWarner Brothers looks back to the early days of talking pictures. Dwight Weist narrates film clips from five movies: "Sinner's Holiday," introducing James Cagney with a glimpse of Joan Blondell, "20,000 Years in Sing Sing," with a young Spencer Tracy and a younger Bette Davis, "Five Star Final," with Edward G. Robinson and a cameo from Boris Karloff, "Night Nurse," starring Barbara Stanwyck with a small role for Clark Gable, and "Svengali," with John Barrymore and Marian Marsh. Each movie is summarized and each star celebrated for work early in the history of sound cinema.
- StarsMark HuntRon HutchinsonScott EymanThe nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures is the backdrop for this insightful documentary. Film historians, and survivors from the era take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the joined forces of Western Electric and Warner Bros. who, with their Vitaphone process,revolutionized the entertainment industry, perhaps more than any time before or since.