HISTORY OF SOUND MOVIES & TRANSITION FROM SILENT ERA “LISTEN TO THIS“ 1978 AT&T MOVIE 66464

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color and black & white educational film is about how sound came to be in the movies. Copyright is 1978. The film was made by AT&T as part of its public outreach campaign. Opening: film reels, filmmaker and sound engineer mix tracks. Multiple people at work moving reels, mixing sound, raising sound levels, making phone calls to get certain tracks. In the control booth, knobs are turned, buttons pushed, a film projector is turned on (:08-:59). Clips from ’The Jazz Singer’ (1927) with Al Jolson, a cartoon, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant Thomas Watson, a man jumping off a balcony to be with his beloved, a young boy, a crying woman. The projector plays on as people in the sound mixing booth discuss. A button is pushed. Clips from ’The Jazz Singer’ (1927), Al Jolson (1:00-2:16). Opening title: LISTEN TO THIS (2:17-2:21). People in the sound mixing booth. Clips