Talkies Movie theater

1908 poster advertising gaumont s sound films. chronomégaphone, designed large halls, employed compressed air amplify recorded sound.

a talkie or sound film motion picture synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled image, opposed silent film. first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in paris in 1900, decades passed before sound motion pictures made commercially practical. reliable synchronization difficult achieve sound-on-disc systems, , amplification , recording quality inadequate. innovations in sound-on-film led first commercial screening of short motion pictures using technology, took place in 1923. primary steps in commercialization of sound cinema taken in mid- late 1920s. @ first, sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue—known talking pictures , or talkies —were exclusively shorts; earliest feature-length movies recorded sound included music , effects. first feature film presented talkie jazz singer, released in october 1927. major hit, made vitaphone, @ time leading brand of sound-on-disc technology. sound-on-film, however, become standard talking pictures. 1930s, talkies global phenomenon. in united states, helped secure hollywood s position 1 of world s powerful cultural/commercial systems (see cinema of united states). in europe (and, lesser degree, elsewhere), new development treated suspicion many filmmakers , critics, worried focus on dialogue subvert unique aesthetic virtues of soundless cinema. in japan, popular film tradition integrated silent movie , live vocal performance, talking pictures slow take root. in india, sound transformative element led rapid expansion of nation s film industry.