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  • Fifty years of sound  by John Aldred
    • American Cinematographer Sept. 1981 (p 888-889 892-897)-- History of development of sound in films.
 
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  • Film Sound History
     - a short technical history of "the talkies", including a brief movie-sound landmark cronography
 
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Cinema's Conversion To Sound: Technology And Film Style In France And The U.S.

by Charles O'Brien (2005)

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The first Hollywood sound shorts, 1926-1931
by Edwin M. Bradley (2005)

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Silent Film Sound

by Rick Altman (November, 2004)

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Now We're Talking: The Story of Theodore W. Case & Sound-On-Film

by Antonio K. Colella & Luke P. Colella (2003)

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The Sounds of Early Cinema

by Richard Abel (Editor), Rick Altman (Editor) 2001

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

by Scott Eyman   (1999)

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Talkies : American Cinema's Transition to  Sound, 1926-1931
(History of the American Cinema, 4) 

by  Donald Crafton (1999) 

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Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood :  
My Early Lifeand Career in Sound Recording at Columbia With Frank Capra and Others  
Scarecrow Filmmakers Series, No 65 
 312 pages (1999)  

by Edward Bernds 

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Excerpts from the book: 

The Birth of the Talkies : From Edison to Jolson


by Harry Geduld
Indiana University Press. Bloomington (1975)
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  • Shattered Silents: How the Talkies Came to Stay
    by Alexander Walker
    Morrow,William & Co (1979)
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  • Know your Movies
    by Welford Beaton
    Los Angeles Howard Hill (1932)
 Respected Hollywood movie critic Welford Beaton seriously predicted that talkies would become a major fiasco.
Audiences would rather use their imagination and therefore they would want go back to the silent films.

 

Edison - The Invention of the Movies (1891-1918)

140 of the first moving pictures ever seen, spanning the birth of cinema from 1891-1918 (4 discs)

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