The epoch of sound

It needs to be said that experiments with sound cinema didn't stop for a year. The main problem concerned the synchronization of "moving picture" and sound amplification. In case it had been done, the sound screen films would have rose very quickly. In the USA, it was mostly the Warner Brothers studio that attempted to produce sound films.

In 1926, this studio produced five short films with added recorded sound what was of enormous success at that time. One of the inventors of the sound film was Denes Mihaly in 1927. Still, the main creators of the sound film were the Americans.

Finally in 1927, Warners released "The Jazz Singer" that included the first sound dialogue in a feature film. It created even greater success with several films following "The Jazz Singer". They were "The Lights of New York" (1928).

The initial technology of sound-on-disc was soon replaced by sound-on-film invented by Movietone, DeForest Phonofilm. That was the very breakthrough...

By the end of 1929, Hollywood shoots only talkative films bringing millions of dollars all around the world. The epoch of screen film silent epoch is finished.

The impact of the sound film was so great that it thrice boosted the production of screen films and brought many more people into cinema theaters.

Within the next 5 years, "talkies" replaced silent films completely.