The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931

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The transition from silent to sound films is a fascinating time in the history of mass entertainment. In the audiences eyes, the halting, stagebound earliest talkies paled in comparison to the fluid, lyrical silents they replaced. Within a few years the technology improved, allowing filmmakers to produce pictures with the added benefits of dialogue, song and sound. However, that five-year period was long enough for careers to have ripened or been ruined and for studio fortunes to have been made or lost.