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GCSE History · key term
Films with synchronised recorded speech, unlike silent films accompanied by live music.
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Revise: Theatre, Stage and ScreenThe Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson in 1927, included synchronised dialogue sequences and marked the arrival of the talkies: films in which audiences could hear recorded speech, not just watch silent action accompanied by live music.
Keep chronology clear: silent cinema came before talkies; television ownership spread before colour broadcasting began; video recorders later gave viewers more control over when they watched.
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