英语词汇talkie的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

talkie. A synonym for a motion picture with sound that was first recorded in 1910 (at least talking motion picture was). Movie myth insists that Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first sound film ever made, but in truth sound had been used in movies long before this, ever since Edison’s first Kine- toscopes in the late 19th century. Many short sound films at the time featured great actors and actresses speaking their parts, as when Sarah Bernhardt spoke in the dueling scene from a 1900 version of Hamlet. What held back talking pictures was the huge investment needed to convert Hollywood studios and movie theaters across the country to sound systems. Toward the middle of the 1920s Warner Bros. realized that they had fallen far behind the other major studios and decided as a last- chance gamble to produce synchronized sound movies. Warn- ers built its own huge Hollywood theater, bought the old Vita- graph company with its 15 houses, and converted its studio stages to sound. On August 6, 1926, it premiered its first syn- chronized sound film, a lavish Vitaphone production of Don Juan starring John Barrymore. A year later, it had its first big hit with The Jazz Singer. See you ain’t heard nothin’ yet.

词汇	talkie
词源	talkie. A synonym for a motion picture with sound that was first recorded in 1910 (at least talking motion picture was). Movie myth insists that Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first sound film ever made, but in truth sound had been used in movies long before this, ever since Edison’s first Kine- toscopes in the late 19th century. Many short sound films at the time featured great actors and actresses speaking their parts, as when Sarah Bernhardt spoke in the dueling scene from a 1900 version of Hamlet. What held back talking pictures was the huge investment needed to convert Hollywood studios and movie theaters across the country to sound systems. Toward the middle of the 1920s Warner Bros. realized that they had fallen far behind the other major studios and decided as a last- chance gamble to produce synchronized sound movies. Warn- ers built its own huge Hollywood theater, bought the old Vita- graph company with its 15 houses, and converted its studio stages to sound. On August 6, 1926, it premiered its first syn- chronized sound film, a lavish Vitaphone production of Don Juan starring John Barrymore. A year later, it had its first big hit with The Jazz Singer. See you ain’t heard nothin’ yet.
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