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
Bitter Sweet (1940) (a
Jeanette MacDonald and
Nelson Eddy picture) and
Comrade X (1940) to illustrate the techniques. Parts of this short are in Technicolor, including a stunning screen test of
Greer Garson for
Blossoms in the Dust (1941). The conclusion is a montage of trailers for coming MGM pictures featuring almost the entire MGM constellation of stars.
—Thomas McWilliams <tgm@netcom.com>