THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S
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A film in which the actors spoke
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Someone who talks on the phone too long
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A new type of telephone
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Talkies are films which include dialogue, music, and other forms of sound. Although the vast majority of films today are talkies, when “talking films, ” as they were called, were first introduced, they attracted a great deal of public commentary and concern.
Detailed explanation-2: -: a motion picture with a synchronized soundtrack.
Detailed explanation-3: -Talkies get their name from the recorded dialogue that played in sync with the images on screen. Movies from the Silent Film Era (1894-1929), were largely recorded and played without sound.
Detailed explanation-4: -The term silent film is a retronym-a term created to retroactively distinguish something from later developments. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were variously referred to as the “talkies", “sound films", or “talking pictures".
Detailed explanation-5: -The Jazz Singer, American musical film, released in 1927, that was the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era.