The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000275
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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THE TALKIES 187 silent films and a lot more. I don't think that the 'Talkies' need many people new to pictures. In fact, those that I have already made prove that my best people are motion-picture actors. They know the business, while the stage actor has to be trained. We won't have talking bathing girls, because the record of the average woman's voice is not altogether pleasing." Chaplin, of course, resides in a motion-picture class of his own. He is probably the one artist in the whole of the motion-picture industry who can stand out against "Talkies" and still remain as popular as ever as the perfect mime. He dislikes "Talkies" immensely, seeing in them nothing but a menace to motion-picture art. From his own point of view he is absolutely right, because one gesture from him tells more than five minutes of dialogue would, but then he is the outstanding genius which the motion-picture has produced, and has a grip of the medium in which he works such as has not been attained by any other man. Norma Talmadge, like other artistes, was at first by no means decided about the Talkies : "If a person drank coffee for breakfast every morning for ten or fifteen years and suddenly changed to cocoa or tea, it might be rather difficult to become accustomed to the transition. Naturally I am still