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talking picture

noun

  1. Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of talking picture1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences

The first talking picture, “The Jazz Singer,” starred Al Jolson as a cantor’s son who wanted to go pop.

His father, a singer and dancer, and his mother, a former Ziegfeld Girl, had moved from New York to work in talking pictures but returned to Broadway as the Great Depression settled in.

When I was small, and spent as much time as allowable in front of a TV set, the history of talking pictures was only four or five decades old; you could take it in whole.

Godard responded: "This is what happens when silent movies meet talking pictures."

From BBC

Is that ironic given that the plot centers on a very specific upheaval in film history, the coming of talking pictures in the mid-1920s?

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