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Lets go to the movies. For more than half a century, these words have meant an invitation to magic. The magic of moving pictures. The spinning of dreams in a darkened theater. For three decades, the dreams were silent ones. The magic of movement alone. Then suddenly, on a night in october 1927, a voice was heard from the screen. Proclaiming a fabulous era in hollywood. The night the movies became the talkies with the premiere of a jazz singer and the voice of al jolson. Its interesting the first...

Lets go to the movies. For more than half a century, these words have meant an invitation to magic. The magic of moving pictures. The spinning of dreams in a darkened theater. For three decades, the dreams were silent ones. The magic of movement alone. Then suddenly, on a night in october 1927, a voice was heard from the screen. Proclaiming a fabulous era in hollywood. The night the movies became the talkies with the premiere of a jazz singer and the voice of al jolson. Its interesting the first...

Possibly be responsible for that kind of public response was the fact that it was all talking. so thats the movie that really changed the equation. >> actresses and actors in the silent period had to look a certain way. you get sound and a lot of those people are put out of a job if they dont sound the right way. >> i dont mind if you close that door. >> i like them open. theyre easier to get out through. >> john gill bert was having trouble in sound and his films werent making money. a very big...

Fact that it was all talking. so thats the movie that really changed the equation. >> actresses and actors in the silent period had to look a certain way. you get sound and a lot of those people are put out of a job if they dont sound the right way. >> i dont mind if you close that door. >> i like them open. theyre easier to get out through. >> john gill bert was having trouble in sound and his films werent making money. >> a very big star. >> i was walking up and down. made one or two talkies. ...