what year did sound come out in motion pictures?

Question

My step dad and I were flipping through channels and he stopped when he saw "The Little Rascals". It wasn't the original one from like the 50's, but he told me it was in black 'n white....and when i thought of black 'n white i thought of those old, old black 'n white with the ppl talking, no audio but there was a slide after that to tell you what they were saying. So, yeah i was wondering...what year did sound come out in motion pictures?

Answer 1

To add what Lady Merton said:



Though "The Jazz Singer" is generally considered the first sound film (or "talkie"), Warner Bros. released "Don Juan" in 1925 and a series of experimental short subjects with sound (via transcription records that had an orchestral score recorded on them which were synchronized to the movie as it was projected on the theater screen) by Vitaphone (recognize the name from Looney Tunes?).



Sound-on-film (audio track recorded directly on film) was developed at what is today 20th Century Fox in association with Western Electric in 1928 and became movie industry standard quickly.



[About "The Little Rascals": the series was actually called "Our Gang" and began during the silent era (producer Hal Roach launched the series in 1924; four of the silent episodes still exist) and lasted until 1944; many of the shorts got re-titled with the Little Rascals moniker when released to television in the 1950s; the 1938-44 episodes were syndicated by MGM separately by the Seventies.]

Answer 2

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what year did sound come out in motion pictures?

My step dad and I were flipping through channels and he stopped when he saw "The Little Rascals". It wasn't the original one from like the 50's, but he told me it was in black 'n white....and when i thought of black 'n white i thought of those old, old black 'n white...

Answer 3

lots of info out there- The Jazz Singer 1927 but there had been one movie before that in 1926



http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/3on1/movies/talkies.html

Answer 4

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue (and singing) in a feature film; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation. This drama consisted of picture slides and moving pictures synchronized with phonograph records of talks and music

Answer 5

How about Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" -- he wrote it about his daughter, for her... it would definitely be appropriate.