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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.
Ronald Coleman had been a star of the screen for several years when talkies came in, and what a boost it was to his career.
This is one of the better Marion Davies talkies - and one of the few to allow her to exhibit her skill as a physical comedian which was so endearing in her silent films.
And audiences waited til this film to see if Garbo could make the transition to talkies.
The "old dark house" sub-genre that dominated the early talkies rarely fails to disappoint when we re-view the oldies to-day.
You can tell talkies hadn't been around too long, as they still use caption cards several times.
The so called security force around this park belongs in toy land: with stupid looking guns, walkie talkies that are useless; and a computer system that ranks with a roll of toilet paper.
At first, these films with MGM were not that bad (such as THE CAMERAMAN) but with talkies, the studio really blew it--putting him in several films with Jimmy Durante.
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).
The 30's is a decade with plenty of movies of every type I can imagine, especially during the early talkies phase.
This is one of Joan Crawford's best Talkies.
Placed at the beginning of talkies, PRIX DE BEAUTE walks a thin line in being a full-on silent film -- which is still is at heart -- and flirting with sound and sound effects.
If some of the artists seem unfamiliar to some, it is because they were big in the silent days, and most faded with the popularity of the talkies.
Some of these early talkies are downright dreadful while some others are just odd curios.
A real artifact of the earliest talkies and musicals, which includes the first two-strip Technicolor (the last half of the movie).
I have a lot of experience watching movies of all ages and types, and I don't make the mistake of comparing silent movies to talkies, since the dramatic form of the motion picture simply works better with sound.
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).
Unfortunately, this is characteristic of most early MGM talkies.
Oscar-nominated star of early talkies and 30s films is almost forgotten now.
The problems are common for most of the period of the early talkies when actors didn't really know that the exaggerated expression of the silent era was no longer needed.
But as is the case with performers who have either left the studio in a bad way, or were known for being erratic, disruptive, or plain uncooperative, or could not make the transition from one period of their career to the next (in this case, silents to talkies), they were immediately replaced with performers who could fill their shoes.
She didn't, and this is her entrance into talkies, awkward, stiff, with little to do but enunciate corny lines.
He very well could have made talkies, as the song I heard him record sounded lovely.
This is a short little "mockumentary" done by Peter Jackson for NZ TV, I guess, about the life of film maker Colin McKenzie, who was a pioneer in many ways in early film making, including talkies, color, and smut.
Ask anyone with a cursory knowledge of classic cinema what the early talkies were like, and the chances are they will mention something about the lack of camera movement.
One can see why Hayakawa would have been a successful silent film actor with his elegant physical presence and one can simultaneously hear why he didn't cut the mustard in talkies - the accent is so thick that one must strain to understand him.
Worth a look for Three Stooges fans and anyone interested in the early talkies.