Watch the dawn of sound: how movies learned to talk 123Movies. Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.
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A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions a...
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This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded we...
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The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two weird individuals sit cross-legged and do the bidding...
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Almost 200 women file by a device on the wall from which they take their time checks. A man runs half-way across the screen at the end of the film.
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A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying equipment...
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On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine, tight...
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Between 1950 and 1955, Henri Langlois tried to produce, on behalf of the Cinémathèque française, several films devoted to great artists, with their co...
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A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'...
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A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.
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Reel 1, an oil field is located, drilled, brought in, and pumped. Shows the Garber Field in Oklahoma. Reel 2 shows how pipe is laid and cleaned. One s...
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Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is capture...
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In a sunny open air setting with a background of high, deep foliage trees, and a white-walled storeyed house, an acrobat with light shirt and trousers...
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Lumière's documents life in Palestine.
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The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the parade...
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In the background is a row of three-masted sailing ships, at anchor, their sales furled. In the foreground, a simple pier that's more like a yardarm j...