The Miracle of Sound
Genre:
Documentary, Short
Countries:
USA
Release Date: October 24, 1940
Year: 1940
Runtime:11min
IMDb Rating:
MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer takes us for a behind the scenes look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. Uses Kärleksdrömmen (1940) (a Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy picture) and Kamrat X (1940) to illustrate the techniques. Parts of this short are in Technicolor, including a stunning screen test of Greer Garson for Blommor i skugga (1941). The conclusion is a montage of trailers for coming MGM pictures featuring almost the entire MGM constellation of stars.
Clark Gable
, Hedy Lamarr
, Spencer Tracy
, Norma Shearer
, Robert Taylor
, Conrad Veidt
, Alla Nazimova
, The Marx Brothers
, Ann Sothern
, Ruth Hussey
, Walter Pidgeon
, Robert Young
, Lew Ayres
, Lionel Barrymore
, Laraine Day