Finding His Voice
Animated 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.
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"This is a cartoon that really was not intended for kids. Despite some cute characters, the film really is a somewhat dry explanation about how sound is placed on film using the Western Electric sound system (as opposed to the one created by Vitaphone--where the accompanying sound was placed on a separate disk and synchronized to the film). The film begins with two anthropomorphic rolls of film. One is a sound film and the other a silent one that can only talk with subtitles. The sound film asks the other if it would like to talk out loud. When the silent film says it's been out of work f..."
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This is the first short to feature the songs "Good night, Ladies" and "Merrily We Roll Along."
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Animated 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.