There were more than a few but the first was The Jazz Singer.
Sound.
1920s
The name given to movies with sound during the 1920s was "talkies".
Charlie Chaplin's movies
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.
Sound.
Sound.
1920s
The name given to movies with sound during the 1920s was "talkies".
Silent movies were made because the technology at the time did not allow for synchronized sound with the moving pictures. The invention of the phonograph in the late 19th century paved the way for sound synchronization in movies, leading to the decline of silent films by the late 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".
Charlie Chaplin's movies
Talking Movies
Real life has sound all around us. So to portray life in a more realistic way, movie technicians developed a way to include recorded sound with motion pictures. This happened in the late 1920s.
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.
Movies about the rich and famous during the 1920s include The Big Parade, The General, Sunrise, Sherlock Jr, and many others.
One major invention that is still around today was radio. Another was talking pictures-- today known as movies (movies had been around since 1895, but they were silent until 1927, when technology to bring sound to movies was perfected). Early experiments with television were occurring in the 1920s, and TV is certainly still around today. Frozen food, band-aids, penicillin, bubble gum, and the yo-yo all go back to the 1920s, and all are still around today.