talking pictures
Movies with dialogue
Talking pictures are motion pictures with synchronized sound, especially dialogue.
The term emerged in the late 1920s when films transitioned from silent movies to sound recordings.
Now old-fashioned—shortened to talkies in casual speech, or simply movies or films: My grandmother still calls them talking pictures.
Filmmaking before talkies
- The Jazz SingerFirst feature with speech
- nickelodeonCoin-fed entertainment machine
- kinetoscopeEarly motion picture viewer
- Lumière brothersFrench cinematograph inventors
Charlie Chaplin · Buster Keaton · Mary Pickford · Rudolph Valentino · silent film · intertitles · Al Jolson · 1927
Vertically integrated film production
- MGMHollywood entertainment conglomerate
- ParamountMajor film conglomerate
- producerOne who makes things
- directorOne who leads
screenwriter · starlet · casting · audition · premiere · red carpet · Oscar · celebrity
Aligning timing across systems
- microphoneAudio input device
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
- soundtrackMusic accompanying visual media
- recordingCaptured audio or video
dubbing · mixing · audio fidelity · Bell Labs · boom mic · sound stage · acoustics · playback
silent era
Filmmaking before talkies
- The Jazz SingerFirst feature with speech
- nickelodeonCoin-fed entertainment machine
- kinetoscopeEarly motion picture viewer
Lumière brothers · Charlie Chaplin · Buster Keaton · Mary Pickford · Rudolph Valentino · silent film · intertitles · Al Jolson · 1927 · movie palace
studio system
Vertically integrated film production
director · screenwriter · starlet · casting · audition · premiere · red carpet · Oscar · celebrity · glamour
synchronization
Aligning timing across systems
- microphoneAudio input device
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
- soundtrackMusic accompanying visual media
recording · dubbing · mixing · audio fidelity · Bell Labs · boom mic · sound stage · acoustics · playback · mono
musical
Sung theatrical production
romcom · horror · sci-fi · fantasy · animation · documentary · screwball comedy · melodrama · noir · matinee
- Film Soundsound design, sound editing, sound mixing, Foley, ADR
- mass mediaprinting press, television, radio, magazines, cinema