talkies
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]talkies
- plural of talkie
- (dated) Talking movies.
- 2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (0:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows[1], season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou):
- “We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.”
Usage notes
[edit]- Used when movies with synchronized recorded speech became common in filmed entertainment in the 1930s, in contrast to silent films, which printed dialog and were often accompanied by music.