Please pretend I said Orson Welles instead of George Orwell. Please.
Ahh voice over.... Most of us know one or two things about the history of it, but for some reason I've taken on the task of doing an unnecessarily thorough breakdown of the full history, dating back to the 1850s. Today we examine basically the 1850s - 1930s and the people you never heard about.
PART 2:    • The Untold History of Voice Over Part...  

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0:00 - Intro
1:15 - First Recorded Sounds
5:42 - The FIRST Voice Actor(s)
8:28 - Early Radio
10:11 - ORSON WELLES!! Not George Orwell. ugh.
13:20 - First Voiced Cartoons
16:44 - The Tea on Betty Boop
22:41 - pls do the stuff :)

Here's just a hecka ton of sources:

First Recorded Sounds:
http://www.firstsounds.org
https://time.com/5084599/first-record...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...

Talking Dolls:
https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/hi...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths...

Radio:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
http://www.otrr.org/FILES/Articles/El...

War of the Worlds:
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.p...
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-154...
https://slate.com/culture/2013/10/ors...

First Cartoons:
https://ethw.org/Phonofilm
http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/...
https://www.mouseplanet.com/10157/Sec...

Betty Boop:
https://animationresources.org/biogra...
and a whole lot from https://bettyboop.fandom.com/wiki/Bet...