Motion picture with synchronized sound.
1The first inauguration with sound film is Herbert Hoover's in 1929.
2But by evoking the feeling of an early sound film, it more easily places the audience in the past.
3But while sound film was taking Western cinema by storm in the early 1930s, the technology had yet to reach China.
4Snow White drew $US8 million at the global box office, and was the highest-grossing sound film at the time.
5Any of the US sound films will do as a "way in" to the Lubitsch sensibility.
6By the time sound films came along at the end of the 1920s the "Bloke" was archived.
Translations for sound film