Homemade Homeschoolers is pleased to bring you the debut episode of the HMHS Podcast Network: Finding His Voice, from 1929. This fun cartoon is also educational as its shows how sound motion pictures work; or had worked up until just recently. Kids and Adults alike will surely enjoy this; and parents could use this as part of a unit study of electronics and media.
Story by W.E. Erpi (a pseudonym for Western Electric, Electrical Research Products Inc.) and directed by F. Lyle Goldman and the legendary Max Fleischer.
For further reading see this Wikipedia article on sound in films which highlights the history and early steps involved in synchronizing sound and film.
How Movie Sound Works is a great article explaining movie sound from it’s humble beginnings right up to modern Sony Dynamic Digital Sound.
For a more thorough look into the history of sound in film for your aspiring film maker or historian, there is a very interesting, vintage look at motion picture making, illustrated with numerous black & white photos 1st published in 1937, called Talking pictures,: How they are made, how to appreciate them
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