The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930 by Scott Eyman

The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930

Scott Eyman

432 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Although motion pictures had existed since the turn of the century, it was D. W. Griffith's controversial but wildly successful The Birth of the Nation, released in 1915, that transformed what had been a flickering novelty into an art form. In the...

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