sound motion picture

noun

1. a motion picture with a soundtrack.

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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