In the 1920s, the development of electronic sound recording technologies made it practical to incorporate a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. The resulting sound films were initially distinguished from the usual silent "moving pictures" or "movies" by calling them "talking pictures" or "talkies. The revolution they wrought was swift. By 1930, silent film was practically extinct in the US and already being referred to as "the old medium.
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