sound film
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3.6
- noun
- /saʊnd fɪlm/
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película sonora
- Eventually, an issue of power was decisive: when sound films were introduced, teachers perceived the built-in narration as unwanted interference with their teaching duties.
- the first sound film
Examples
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The success of popular sound films made in the country, beginning with the adaptation of Federico Gamboa's novel Santa in 1931, showed that Mexican movies could constitute a cultural resource with enormous potential.
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Among the results was a corpus of films celebrated, like French sound films prior to the occupation, for a kind of formal anarchy, in which the films, in their insistent materiality, become alien and refractory to the very narrative worlds that they open up.
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And some perspectives that will also help us look forward to what will follow to the, to the sound films that will follow this week.
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In 1932, the first charro sound film appeared.
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For this very reason, the paradoxical reactions of both acceptance and rejection of Hollywood movies became far less frequent with the emergence of the Mexican sound film industry in the thirties.
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Alonso, a prominent figure in Cuba's newsreel industry, directed Cuba's first full-length sound film in 1937.
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Inspired by the early sound films of Al Jolson and the recordings of the virtuoso jazz pianist Art Tatum, he resolved as a boy to become a professional singer.
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The impending danger was reinforced in the late twenties, when the first sound films (which were delivered and distributed only in English since dubbing and subtitling had not been invented yet) seemed to prevail over the Spanish language itself.
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The ragtag, anarchic spirit of vaudeville insinuated its way into early sound films in the work of comedians like W.C. Fields, Mae West, and the Marx Brothers.
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Alonso directed Cuba's first full-length sound film in 1937, showcasing the evolution of cinema technology.
Synonyms
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1.5
A saved audio or video file you can play
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3.0
A story that uses moving images and sound, like a movie
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8.1
A movie with recorded people talking and sound, not silent
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a film that includes synchronized recorded sound' is directly and compositionally derived from 'sound' (auditory element) + 'film' (movie), so a learner who knows both words can infer the combined meaning. This noun–noun combination follows a common and cross-linguistically regular pattern (e.g., Spanish 'película sonora', French 'film sonore'), making it readily understandable at B1.
Etymology
Sound film comes from a simple idea: it is a film with recorded sound added so you can hear voices and music as the picture plays. When movies changed in the 1920s and viewers could finally hear actors and effects, people called these new films 'talkies', so sound film now means a movie that includes recorded sound.