Sentences with phrase «of talkies»

First employed in set design for silent pictures, after the advent of talkies Ballin created murals still extant at Griffith Observatory, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, and Burbank City Hall).

Account of the coming of talkies and what else was going on in Hollywood at the time.

Profanity has a long and rich history in film, dating back to the dawn of talkies.

A mostly silent film about a silent film star whose career is derailed by the advent of talkies, The Artist recalls Singin» in the Rain in its story.

Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza, with James Cagney doubling as both a Broadway show producer and a song - and - dance man whose livelihood is threatened by the advent of talkies.

Wings, a silent film, won the Oscar for Best Picture that night, a feat which would never be repeated, given the impending innovations in sound technology that ushered in the age of the talkies.

He made a handful of talkies in Hollywood, then relocated to England in 1934, where he helmed several more films, among them the documentary Royal Cavalcade, before retiring in 1940.

He harrumphed and glowered his way through dozens of talkies, most often as unpleasant corporate types; sometimes, as in his portrayal of Friar Laurence in MGM's Romeo and Juliet, he could rechannel his negative authoritativeness into a more positive vein.

Upon the arrival of talkies in 1929, many of Brackett's literary works were optioned by Hollywood.

You pass the era of the talkies and into a fistfight with Clark Gable.

This film, for which Dix was himself Oscar - nominated, would remain the high water mark of his talkie career, which gradually diminished into inexpensive programmers and westerns.

While many of his talkie roles at Warners were bits, Blue was given choice supporting roles in such films as Across the Pacific (1942), Mask of Dimitrios (1944) and especially Key Largo (1948).

When studio executive Al Zimmer (John Goodman) shows him the first attempts at talking pictures, George is dismissive of the talkie.

But when the cigar chomping studio boss, played by a pitch perfect John Goodman, gives him a preview of a talkie, he remains blind to the handwriting on the wall.

Not exact matches

In the wake of a historic and deadly hurricane season, an app called Zello Walkie Talkie has become the communication tool of choice for both people working to help in cleanup and first responder efforts, such as the Cajun Navy in Houston, and those affected and displaced by these storms.

May had heard the gunfire over the walkie - talkie and asked Feis if it was the sound of firecrackers.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World — published in 1932, just after the transition from silent film to «talkies» — depicts futuristic cinema experiences called «feelies,» in which metal knobs on moviegoers» armrests transmit realistic sensations of whatever the on - screen actors are feeling.

We spent the heinously long hours bantering back and forth on walkie - talkies and bonded over our mutual love for really dumb movies, of which we both knew every line.

It had been the Yankees» practice in the American League playoffs against Kansas City to place one of their functionaries in the stands with a walkie - talkie, the better to advise Manager Billy Martin on the positioning of his outfielders.

Dealers even coordinate with walkie - talkies sometimes (though the crew of young men working Radio Row while I'm there aren't that technologically advanced).

The Giants were said to be observing that rule with their walkie - talkie use, but as one of Schefter's sources noted, they could have.

Good tip: Bring a set of Walkie Talkies to stay connected to your family.

This set of Walkie Talkies have a no - slip rubber grip, speakerphone feature, built - in sound effects and 300 + feet (90 + meter) range.

The main purpose of a walkie talkie is to ensure communication.

This week the Chicago Park District introduced its ranger force: all four of them, three men and one woman, armed only with walkie - talkies and $ 700 bicycles as they patrol the West Side's Garfield Park, a hangout for drug dealers, gang members and other ominous characters.

However, there is a Morse code button also included in the front size of the walkie talkie.

Walkie Talkies for the kids is one of them.

Different types of Walkie Talkies have different communication distance.

Before the birthday of my younger son, he wished to have a walkie talkie!

The order included to individual walkie talkie that has sporty design and using is super easy with just a push of button.

After that pick one for him and manage a list of 10 best walkies talkies for the kids.

If your child is afraid of being alone and is comforted only by contact with you, consider offering up a virtual you, in the form of a two - way monitor or a set of walkie - talkies.

Overall, this monitor is leaps and bounds ahead of our old, traditional battery - operated «walkie talkie» type monitor.

Then ask him to think of some things that would be fun for him and his visitor to play with together, such as toy walkie - talkies, art and craft supplies, building blocks, and sports equipment.

While the baby monitors you grew up with were more like walkie - talkies, today's baby monitors contain all kinds of features.

Contacting Your Child's Camp Director Also, as part of our ongoing goal to communicate with parents, the Park District has equipped directors with a cell phone enhanced with an in - house walkie - talkie feature.

Brand of baby monitors, Ariete, this particular baby monitor is composed of typical receiver walkie talkie.

Two - Way Baby Monitors Two - way baby monitors are devices that work like a walkie - talkie but the control of changing the setting from a receiver to a transmitter lie in the hands of the parent.

The artsy guests are treated to a dizzying, dazzling view of everything from St Paul's to the Walkie Talkie across the Thames.

«They are distributing this walkie - talkie machine to all the polling station agents of the NDC so that when they block social media and other radio stations, they will still have access to communicate with themselves», Wontumi said in an interview on Accra - based Okay FM.

The weight of a walkie talkie is determined by the materials used in its construction.

Long range walkie talkies are available in a wide variety of styles and with an even greater number of features.

Operating over a maximum distance of 50 miles, these long range handheld walkie talkies feature 22 channels with 142 privacy codes per channel.

This walkie talkie set features 22 channels, 11 of which are weather channels that deliver up - to - date NOAA alerts.

So Weschler and Wisthaler simulated a typical office environment at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen — two people in a carpeted 28.5 — cubic meter room at a temperature of 23 degrees Celsius with two small stainless steel tables, two chairs, two flat - screen LCD monitors, two headsets, one walkie - talkie, one small mixing fan, a few books, two laptops, two bottles of water and ozone concentrations that reached roughly 32 parts per billion, an average exposure for a hot, smoggy day.

«There's one right behind you guys,» the walkie - talkie announces in the voice of Harvey Elliott, a graduate student from the University of Michigan.

«Let's take a picture,» Asmin «Oz» Pathare of the Planetary Science Institute says into his walkie - talkie, a hundred yards away from us.

Walkie - talkies crackled to life as Parks Canada staff radioed nearby tour operators piloting boats full of tourists: «Killer whales in Button Bay.

The new memory, known as MRAM, is based on cheap materials and simple electrical circuits: a domestic fridge, a walkie - talkie, a car radio and a gallon of a common laboratory chemical.

The Associated Press reports that the waist - high robot, on the job since September, is built atop a three - wheel scooter and features a home - alarm loudspeaker attached to a walkie - talkie that allows Terrill to order vagrants to clear out of his bar from a safe distance.