Talkies in example sentence

The Marx Brothers ending (no spoiler really), and the short Egyptian tomb sequence show the care that was taken with getting all the 1920's aspects down perfectly (and don't forget the musical numbers, when people would break into song in any sort of film back then -well, the talkies at least).

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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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