The shattered silents: How the talkies came to stay

By Alexander Walker

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 024189736X
• ISBN13: 9780241897362
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Elm Tree Books
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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