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sound film

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noun

1.

a film on which sound has been or is to be recorded, as for the soundtrack of a motion picture.

2.

sound motion picture.

Origin of sound film

1920-1925

First recorded in 1920-25

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Every vision, every sound, every sensation, laid clean and sharp like a sound film ready for running.

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