sound film
Americannoun
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a film on which sound has been or is to be recorded, as for the soundtrack of a motion picture.
Etymology
Origin of sound film
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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“I Have Sinned” was the first Yiddish sound film made in Poland.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
That film, along with “Ben-Hur,” had not yet been made as a sound film.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2022
His observations on the way Garbo’s performances brought the codified gestural language of silent film acting into sound film suggests the rarity of it being accomplished by her contemporaries.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022
The first sound film, a year before “The Jazz Singer,” opened with the New York Philharmonic playing the overture to “Tannhäuser.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2020
Funny how slowly his mind worked ... thoughts coming jerkily like a sound film running at quarter speed ... fingers shaking so he could scarcely strike a light.
From Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various
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