Talkies
in example sentence
The acting was wooden and stilted, even by early
talkies
standards (the exceptions being Lee Tracy and HB Warner, neither of whom can do wrong).
More example sentences with word talkies
Chaplin was great a silent comedian, but many silent era stars fell when the public heard their voices in the first
talkies.
Some of the early
talkies
survived to become classics.
It's virtually a compendium of what was wrong with the earliest talkies: stiff direction, immobile cameras, stagy acting and ridiculously slow-paced delivery of lines.
As with many early talkies, and especially ones made by smaller studios, there is little skill demonstrated by the cast and crew.
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