The Shattered Silents: How the Talkies Came to Stay

by Alexander Walker

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688003532
• ISBN13: 9780688003531
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Quill
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

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The Shattered Silents

British Film Critic Alexander Walker has written the first comprehensive book on the most important development in film history - the introduction of sound. The Shattered Silents is a superbly written, lively book that expertly re-creates the atmosphere of the silent-to-sound transition. It is illustrated with 65 photographs, some of them quite rare. -- from book's back cover