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Loading... The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 (1997)by Scott Eyman
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book is an absolutely enthralling read about the technological and cultural development of sound in movies. For all that this development was resisted by the industry, it's amazing how quickly the "fad" took hold and innovations followed to make it more usable. The ripple effects extended far beyond Hollywood--where many silent movie stars had their careers abruptly die--to Broadway, where a new crop of actors and writers were found, to foreign markets that had relied heavily on easily-adaptable silent movies. I loved this book and it's one I will happily keep on my shelf for future reference. ( ) no reviews | add a review
It was the end of an era. It was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period, four short years in which America's most popular industry reinvented itself. Here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when movies were totally transformed and the American public cemented its love affair with Hollywood. As Scott Eyman demonstrates in his fascinating account of this exciting era, it was a time when fortunes, careers, and lives were made and lost, when the American film industry came fully into its own. In this mixture of cultural and social history that is both scholarly and vastly entertaining, Eyman dispels the myths and gives us the missing chapter in the history of Hollywood, the ribbon of dreams by which America conquered the world. No library descriptions found. |
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