Story Of Alexander Graham Bell, The (1939) - (Movie Clip) You Are No Longer A Child!

Story Of Alexander Graham Bell, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Sound From Afar

Almost broke, with electrician-assistant Watson (Henry Fonda, only weeks before his first top-billed role in Young Mr. Lincoln), Don Ameche (title character), working on a telegraph, discovers he can send sound over a wire, in The Story Of Alexander Graham Bell, 1939.

Story Of Alexander Graham Bell, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) The Nature Of Sound

In a Boston boarding house, 1873, we meet Don Ameche as the title character, a teacher of deaf children, Elizabeth Patterson the hostess, offering a demo then receiving Sanders (Gene Lockhart), a parent, and an investor (Charles Coburn), in The Story Of Alexander Graham Bell, 1939.