42nd Street unavoidably suffers from the gauzy, low - texture quality of many films from the early
talkie age, but the Blu - ray maximizes fine detail without ever sanding away the flaws that give such films part of their throwback charm.
Not exact matches
Image: Motorola Walkie TalkiesSchool -
aged kids and teens love walkie
talkies.
It runs the usual Maddin gamut of stylistic nods to (primarily) the late silent and early
talkie periods, complete with a whopping amount of explanatory intertitles (perhaps outweighing actual spoken dialogue), artificially scratched /
aged «film stock,» use of obvious miniatures, approximation of two - strip Technicolor and so forth.
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.
The arrival of the «
talkies» in the late 1920s heralds the Golden
Age of Hollywood and the city's film studios are abuzz with creativity, excitement and experimentation.