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When did sound appear in films?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The first feature-length movie originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927. Though the film was primarily a silent with a few talking sequences, it was nevertheless a tremendous success. Short talkies had been produced and shown throughout the 1920s.

The idea of adding sound to film was not even new then. William Dickson, a technician at Thomas Edison's laboratory, had recorded a violinist on a gramaphone cylinder and filmed him as early as 1894 or 1895. When the cylinder and film were played together, as was intended, it could be considered the first "talkie." Numerous problems, however, such as how to make sure sound and image were synchronized correctly with each and every viewing, delayed the development of sound film for some time.

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