sound film
Movie with dialogue
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized audio—dialogue, music, and sound effects recorded alongside the visual footage.
The term emerged in the late 1920s to distinguish talkies from silent films: The Jazz Singer was among the first commercially successful sound films.
Now that virtually all films have sound, the term appears mainly in historical contexts.
Spoken exchange between parties
- scoreNumerical standing in competition
- soundtrackMusic accompanying visual media
- dubbingPost-production sound replacement
- mixingCombining into one mass
foley · boom operator · recording · ADR · post-production · Dolby · room tone · voiceover
Music accompanying visual media
- synchronizationAligning timing across systems
- talkiesMovies with audible dialogue
- phonographGrooved disc audio player
- recordingCaptured audio or video
amplification · microphone · audio engineering · transducer · playback · dubbing · mixing · foley
Film with audio
- screeningEvaluative selection process
- premiereFirst public performance
- directorOne who leads
- actorOne who portrays characters
actress · audience · studio · Hollywood · Bollywood · musical · drama · comedy
Prolific American inventor
- talkiesMovies with audible dialogue
- silent eraFilmmaking before talkies
- transitionChange from one state
- Warner BrosMajor film studio
1927 · pioneer · breakthrough · invention · revolution · intertitles
dialogue
Spoken exchange between parties
- scoreNumerical standing in competition
- soundtrackMusic accompanying visual media
- dubbingPost-production sound replacement
mixing · foley · boom operator · recording · ADR · post-production · Dolby · room tone · voiceover
soundtrack
Music accompanying visual media
- synchronizationAligning timing across systems
- talkiesMovies with audible dialogue
- phonographGrooved disc audio player
recording · amplification · microphone · audio engineering · transducer · playback · dubbing · mixing · foley · acoustics
talkie
Film with audio
actor · actress · audience · studio · Hollywood · Bollywood · musical · drama · comedy · genre
Edison
Prolific American inventor
- talkiesMovies with audible dialogue
- silent eraFilmmaking before talkies
- transitionChange from one state
Warner Bros · 1927 · pioneer · breakthrough · invention · revolution · intertitles
- film techniquesdolly zoom, closeup, close-up, fade, wide shot
- Bell Labstransistor, Unix, C language, information theory, cellular network
- screen formatswidescreen, fullscreen, 16:9, letterbox, aspect ratio