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talking picture
noun
- Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
Word History and Origins
Origin of talking picture1
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."
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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