talkies in English

noun
1
a movie with a soundtrack, as distinct from a silent film.
There were several silents, several early talkies and 15 other films between 1935-49 about Louis Vance's Michael Lanyard, the jewel thief-turned hero.
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1. Walkie-talkies were used for communication along the way.

2. 20 Garbo made two dozen films, first silent pictures then talkies.

3. Computer hardware, communications hardware, namely, PDAs, cell phones, walkie talkies and pagers

4. Portable communications apparatus, namely radios, handsets, walkie-talkies, sattelite telephones, land line telephones, digital cellular phones

5. A group of 15 "provocateurs" was said to have directed crowds using walkie-talkies and incited some of the violence using crowbars to open buildings and throwing Molotov bombs into them.

6. 24 It's probably inspired by real-life lovers John Gilbert, whose star waned when the talkies came, and Greta Garbo, who became even more successful when her first sound film proclaimed "Garbo talks!".

7. Clara Gordon Bow (/ˈboʊ/; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" after 1927.

8. A PERSON IN THE DARK: Chaplinesque A PERSON IN THE DARK A site designed for all of the wonderful people out there in the dark and dedicated to the unabashed passion for silents, early talkies, all stars and all films

9. Come here, you fuckin' Backstabber! (Why I oughta) beat a bitch snake from the hood Ha ha, come here, you fuckin' Backstabber! (Why I oughta) stay away from him, he ain't no good! We got the walkie-talkies to keep us all informed Suited up head to toe in detective uniforms Our unit storms in, …