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All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!
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A blog celebrating the early talkies and their times. My goal is to educate, entertain and spread some light on a sadly forgotten era of entertainment. From the reactions I get I can tell I'm not the only one loving these movies. It's so sad so few of them are preserved for us to enjoy.
About 75% of all the movies from the years 1925-35 are lost forever.The early musicals made in color before 1934 have an even greater loss-percentage. Some actors and actresses work has almost been totally erased due to this. Another cause pushing these movies towards total oblivion is the studios reluctance to release what they have left on DVD.
Recent Posts
An early talkie Christmas - Part 2
Just when we thought we had seen it all Warner Archive is releasing yet another batch of four totally brilliant early talkies to add to your wish list in the "must have" section.The Show Of Shows (1929) was Warner's contribution to the revue craze th...
An early talkie Christmas!
Today Warner Brothers announced the release of some really interesting titles in the fantastic Warner Archives series. In this latest batch we find some absolute necessities for the early talkie fan. Below I have selected seven titles I would buy a...
Cut musical numbers in 1930
The first life of the Hollywood movie musical ended in the summer of 1930. The movie goers were fed up with backstage dramas and movies built around a generous bouquet of songs. The songs could be great but plots were often thin and it was hard to te...
Mamba (1930) - Lost and Found
In the summer of 1929 poverty row studio Tiffany Pictures decided to put all their eggs in one basket when they embarked on what was to become their biggest project ever. Warner Bros had done a similar move when they went all in with the Jazz Singer ...
Colleen bobs her hair
The cover of the May 1920 issue of Saturday Evening Post in which Fitzgerald's short story first was publishedWhen F. Scott Fitzgerald published his short story Bernice Bobs Her Hair in the May 1920 issue of Saturday Evening Post, little did he know ...
New York Nights (1929)
New York Nights is one of those early talkies that has survived but in severely truncated form. It's hard to tell exactly what was cut but it seems to be quite a lot. The print in circulation, the 1938 re-release clocks in at a mere 64 minutes compar...
