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What 1952 movie musical is about the transition from silent movies to talkies?
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The Jazz Singer (1927)
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What does the term 'talkies' mean?
A film with spoken dialogue as opposed to a silent film where the dialogue is on a card to be read.
What are films without sound called?
usually there was live music eg. piano scores put over the top or played when people came to watch it. Sometimes they had the scene clip then written dialogue came after... but that was mostly when it was in black and white and the dialogue had to be pretty basic because you wouldn't want the audience to sit there for time on end reading the entire script. That is mostly why most films were short but there are also other reasons as to why... I dont know if that helps or anything :D
What was the last silent movie made?
The very first movies did not have sound tracks. You've probably seen clips of some of these black and white movies. During these movies, frames would appear that would give a clip of significant dialogue, or a short summary of the story at that point. Piano players or organists would be watching the film and improvising music to fit the mood as the story unfolded. I think the first sound films were made in the early 1930's or so. Many movie idols of the silent era could not make the transition to "talkies" because their voices were not suited to the new medium.
What do you called early movies that were made without sound?
silent films.
Why did the silent film era end?
Our Dancing Daughters 1928 officially the last silent movieIn 1928, Anita Page had her big break in the popular Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (dialogue-less) Jazz Age melodrama Our Dancing Daughters, in which she, the up-and-coming Joan Crawford, and minor leading lady Dorothy Sebastian were hot mamas who discover that in life there's always the morning after."Silent Movie" (1976). Directed by Mel Brooks. Stars Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar, Harold Gould, Bernadette Peters.
What musical focuses on Hollywood's transition from silent to talking films?
Singin' In The Rain.
What does the term 'talkies' mean?
A film with spoken dialogue as opposed to a silent film where the dialogue is on a card to be read.
What silent film star never made talkies?
Rudolph Valentino died before the talkies took over the industry. Character actor Coit Albertson, also known as Edward Coit Albertson, did not make the transition.
What Are Some silent movies Called?
Silent Movies were called 'Silents', or Golden Silents, because they were (silent). One famous example of a Silent is The Sheik (1921), starring Rudolph Valentino as Ahmed Ben Hassan, by Paramount Pictures. FYI... • The 1920s were known as The Silent Era. • Sound was not introduced into movies until 1923. • Talkies (movies with sound) replaced Silents in 1930.
What are talkis?
Talkies is what the people of the early 1930s called the sound films, as opposed to silent films."Talkies" is a now-obsolete term for moving pictures that have a sound track. Originally, moving pictures (movies) were silent. When sound was added, they were called "talkies." Since sound is now an essentially universal characteristic of motion pictures, there is no longer a need to distinguish films with sound from other films, so the word has fallen out of use.
What is a good subject for movies in the 1920s?
You might want to investigate the introduction of sound to what were at the time silent movies. Silent Films would be shown at the movie theater, and were often accompanied by an on-site piano or organ. I believe sound was added to movies during the 1920's and are refered to as "talkies".
What is meant by the phrase movies for the silent screen?
These are silent films, most made before the invention of talkies. Mel Brooks made a silent film called "Silent Movie" in 1976. His did have a sound track. In the early days of cinema, movie music was played live.
What was the biggest change in Hollywood films in the 1920s?
They Started Making movies were the charachters would talk called "talkies." all movies have audio like that now, but before the mid-1920's all films had been silent.
What was the biggest change in the Hollywood films in the 1920s?
They Started Making movies were the charachters would talk called "talkies." all movies have audio like that now, but before the mid-1920's all films had been silent.
When sound first came into to the movie industry how did it change?
Many of the actors who had been huge in the silent film industry were unable to make the transition to "talkies" because their voice (which hadn't mattered before) was unsuitable to film.
Who did the first female lead role?
In movies, obviously Sarah Bernhardt. She died in l923, long before talkies were commercially viable, so it was a silent film version, of most probably, Cleopatra.
Did silent movies have pianos playing during them?
Silent movies, as they originally ran in theaters, had no sound at all. It was a given that the theater pianist (or organist, usually) would add sound by "playing along" with the film (a rare skill that has pretty much died out today). When you watch a silent movie now, and hear music, it was added to the soundtrack in the studio in part to mimic the experience of viewers during original theater runs. By the way, 'silent movies' were not called that when they were popular; they were called simply "movies" since they were the only kind of movie that anyone knew about until the 'talkies' came along and quickly made silent films obsolete.
