sound motion picture
Americannoun
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Although blackface used to be present in mainstream U.S. culture — the first sound motion picture, "The Jazz Singer," infamously showed star Al Jolson singing in blackface — its use is now universally condemned as racist.
From Salon
First sound motion picture in the air was not Devil Dogs of the Air but Baboona, the Martin Johnson film which Eastern Air Lines showed bigwigs month ago in a Douglas a mile over Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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