I remember my father watching this TV program, "The Twentieth Century", in the early 1960s. At first I was bored by it but after awhile, began to watch it myself. And decades later, here I am, a professional historian.

When I was a little girl, I watched this series with my mother. Nice memories. Ty.

Thank you for posting this on YT. Before Periscope Films gets ahold of it and plasters it with a watermark and on-screen frame counter.

Originally telecast on October 25, 1959, on CBS.

This fascinates me

19:12- this sequence was originally seen in the 1950 AMPAS/Columbia short, "The Soundman", demonstrating how sound engineers "mixed" various sounds into a horse race scene for a 1948 Columbia feature, "The Return of October".

14:49-14:52 This is the boss himself, Jack L. Warner.

Amazing, I had no idea about the earliest experiments this info is usually omitted when telling the story of talkies

For most people, the first electrical recordings they heard reproduced electrically were the Vitaphone soundtracks. They were impressive.

(While early film are admittedly primitive, remember these clips are a hundred years old. They looked and sounded much better when first released.)

It's unnerving in a way to be watching a film, a silent but no less a film with people in it that may well have been born before the half 19th century mark.

At last, the voice killed the silence..

Thanks Rod For these spectacular essential viewing materials and I might say before my time and Hollywood casting another spell on myself from beginning to the end a magical journey through the ups and downs of Hollywoods fortunes and fails but the Show Must Go On!...Regardless in its own unique Way , Montages Extraodinaire And very grateful considering the prevailing times today on medical martial law enforcement lockdowns...Slangevar Rod Frae Beautiful Bonnie Scotland...

2:27 Comedian, Director, Producer Mack Sennett early in his career in grey suit and bowler hat.

First projection: December 28th, 1895 in Paris

If motion pictures keep evolving they will be unwatchable.. Most already are

The real beauty of this was listening to Walter Cronkite. Someone you could rely on.

Thank you sir. Thanks god.

Now we can watch movies in colour and high definition on devices we can hold in our hands that can be operated by simply touching a glass screen.

i remember seeing this in high school in the early 70s.

They tried to play the 20 frames per second with a 24 frames a second projector.

How come they don’t have Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie.

Has some early material not in other docs on history of sound movies, and I've seen about half a dozen. Wonder how the Great Cronkite would be viewed by today's audience?

Audio killed the pantomime star

18:14" the soundman is king , cameraman and performers are his slaves" :`)

The movies learn to talk. But not color. Copyright MCMLIX (1959)

❤ what nobody told anybody was the studio's told their big stars that if they want to be heard on film did have to pay half

And now I watch videos of cats falling off tables while I take a shit

From this to Atmos and God knows where from here ... a "Brainstorm" type setup, perhaps?

16:32 Dave Chappelle 🤣🤦🏾‍♂️😭😭😭🤧

The clip of the guy playing the cello with stuff dropped on him from an upstairs window (6:53) is hilarious. Does anyone know any details about this one?

Sound-on-cylinder is good but sound-on-disc is better but sound-on-film is much better.

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what movie is at 4:29?

One question, when does movies learn to talk back?

10:19 - 10:57 what version of don juan is this? The version I see on the internet only has sword fight sound effects and it sounded very different.

0:44- "...as THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA presents- 'THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'."

Pity it wasn't done properly from the start😉

16:23 When will "The Jazz Singer" be banned by Congress? Strike that... banned by Congress and the decision upheld by the Supreme Court.

6:58 from where it is ?

This film is incredibly propagandist, presenting a narrative in which Edison invented all of these things which of course he did not. At least not singlehandedly.