"How Talkies Are Made" (Photoplay, Apr. 1929)

[@cindydufala7646]

Imagine people like Kirk Douglas and Bob Hope see the film industry evolve from radio to internet.

[@nobodysperfect06]

Olivia De Havilland as well

[@addie_is_me]

Bob hope died before he could have seen that, but the other two did and others as well, Angela Landsberry, Norman Lloyd…

[@nobodysperfect06]

@@addie_is_me Bob Hope passed away in 2003, the internet was already in existence by then.

[@mistergrandpasbakery9941]

Most of this information I've heard before but your presentation and delivery make it sound fresh and new! Bravo!

[@Gee-no]

Great video. This is my favorite time period. I love silent film but the early talkies are fascinating. I read about whenever it comes up. Thanks for the video! 🎥🎬🎞️🎤🎧

[@hamburgareable]

This vid proves why i love the old fashioned kind of entertainment even more than todays junk on the screen! 👍 Thanks for sharing!

[@thomasbrown7980]

This was great. Very informative about the technology, but also the mind set of the day.

[@EpicAdrian3D]

Can you do a video on how 1920s magazines were designed. Like how they got the columns to look like that on a typewriter. If you change the font and put this article in color it could be mistaken for something today! That's how well they hold up!

[@xMarvin732]

So nice how peaceful the days after WW1 and before WW2 were...

[@dianacooper-havlik9085]

Fascinating!!!!!!

[@lanacampbell-moore4549]

Interesting thanks for sharing😊

[@jackmorrison7379]

"Most of them will do well in the talking pictures", wrote that writer for the magazine. You mean like Richard Barthelmess, John Gilbert, Clara Bow, and most sadly for this fan, Harold Lloyd? Chaplin just refused to talk (except for a single nonsense patter song in one film) until the Hitler parody movie. Careers did end. Lots of them. Those with vaudeville experience usually prospered as Archie Leach became Cary Grant. Mary Pickford will always be seen as a silent film actress, as will Lillian Gish even with her transformation into a limited number of roles as mature lady character actress in sound.

[@brennocalderan2201]

I imagine the shock of the people in the cinema hearing the first talkie, the scare must have been inevitable. Some actors from the silent era didn't like the talkies because of the difficulties, some wouldn't remember their dialogues and etc.

[@sodality3970]

Oh , to have lived then...this was my grandparents generation .

[@simenon5929]

10:34 What are they talking about Marc Anthony committing self forever sleep by gunshot? what movie is this?

[@bennorwood8433]

Can you do a video about science-fiction magazines in the 1920s and there contact

[@john-lenin]

“Greta never has to talk”

[@mikedrown2721]

👍👌😊❤️

[@addie_is_me]

Sound ruined movies!! Hell, movies ruined radio!! Lol I never found Charlie. Chaplin that funny. It might be because I know his process. Anyone would eventually come up with something funny that way, eventually. Like Charles felt, I think his brother was funnier. Charlie Chase might be my favorite. Figuring out sound effects for movie, like they did for radio, must have been hard and frustrating, but kind of fun. That’s ironic, so many people lost their careers when sound happened to them. If chewing the scenery didn’t hurt legitimate stage actors or vaudevillians (who were trained to play it big) for making it in the silents…I mean how bad could people’s voices have been? 😆 😆😆 It makes sense that Edward Everett Horton would kill in talkies. I bet he was good in silents too though, I have to go find it.

[@2KDUDE22]

Thank goodness some revolted at making talkies or we wouldnt have all time great films like modern times and passion of joan of arc. There was something freeing about silents where you could do anything not having to worry about sound. 1930s movies were a bunch of talking heads until technology and skill caught up in the 40s. 1930s worst film decade.

[@CamhiRichard]

Holy smoke! Lubitsch, Sturges, Cukor, deMille, Curtiz, Capra, Disney, etc. etc. Think some rewatching is in order.

[@2KDUDE22]

@@CamhiRichard I love film one of the Decades has to be the worst

[@CamhiRichard]

@@2KDUDE22 Of course you realize that Modern Times was not a silent film. I love silent films, too, especially those from the 1920s. But why judge? All films are different, all eras, all tastes, all techniques. Enjoy them for what they are.

[@zacharyrome3432]

Its embarrassing how underrated this channel is !!

[@abunchofiguanaswithinterne2186]

Yes! The people/person behind this channel is very dedicated to good quality videos.

[@hamburgareable]

Yep, criminally disliked as well.

[@scotnick59]

A fascinating time; Hollywood must have been so exciting during the 193O era!

[@scottlarson1548]

The adoption of sound in theaters was incredibly quick. Thousands of theaters in the country had to install sound systems in just a few months otherwise they simply couldn't project new movies anymore and would have gone out of business.

[@naomibedek1701]

It's hard for people today to understand how big a deal it was to go from silent films to talkies.

[@EpicAdrian3D]

Imagine making movies 100 years ago. You had to be a mad genius. Wax discs, film reels, fragile microphones. Nowadays I click a button on a GoPro, throw it off a cliff and upload it to KZbin. Oh the advances over the century.

[@scottlarson1548]

If you want to learn about this stuff, get Barry Salt's "Film Style and Technology: History and Analysis". Salt documents every innovation in the history of film and how it affected film making.

[@mr.helper1466]

First to comment

[@peterxyz3541]

FASCINATING! This is cool! Thanks

[@wmcoale]

Fascinating! That film title is pronounced "koh-KET," FYI.

[@Gee-no]

Haha. I was gonna comment on that too.!

[@addie_is_me]

I wanted to mention Grand Dames is pronounced Grond Doms. It just sounds more like how it’s meant. A Grand Dame, as it’s spelled, would be insulted if they were called, “Dame.” Lol

[@yelloworangered]

Thank you for reading these articles!

[@huntrrams]

I’ll love to be in that first audiences who were amazed with talkies.

[@Michael-hb4wc]

'Talkies' have no future; vaudeville is where it's at! btw, another great video. 👏👏👏

[@stevenlangdon-griffiths293]

The lad who pioneered synchronised sound and vision was a Sthelens lad.

[@georgerodriquez7744]

I can hear those actors saying ah talkie is a faced it wouldn't last and then we would go back to silent movies. I also was thinking about the electrical and vendors maybe sayi g the same.ah its not going to last and back to candles can you imagen that.them saying its a faces.to bad that didnt happen

[@linyenchin6773]

Beautiful glimpse into yesterday, the glorious days of Eugenic cultivation that would soon fall to 1930's poverty and deterioration that lead up to WWII and the vile civil rights movement that next came as it hammered down purity of America.

[@HansLimburger1930]

Vile civil rights movement? lol