talking picture

noun

1. Older Use.,  a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of talking picture¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Crawford survived the transition to talking pictures—one of the few silent stars to do so—and proved herself as a star and an actress amid the all-star scrum of 1932’s “Grand Hotel.”

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The first talking picture, “The Jazz Singer,” starred Al Jolson as a cantor’s son who wanted to go pop.

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His father, a singer and dancer, and his mother, a former Ziegfeld Girl, had moved from New York to work in talking pictures but returned to Broadway as the Great Depression settled in.

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When I was small, and spent as much time as allowable in front of a TV set, the history of talking pictures was only four or five decades old; you could take it in whole.

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Godard responded: "This is what happens when silent movies meet talking pictures."

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Related Words

• cinema 
• feature 
• film 
• flick 
• motion picture 
• picture 
• show 
• videotape