The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501103834)

From acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to 'talkies' transformed Hollywood.

It was the end of an era. It was a turbulent, colorful, and altogether remarkable period, four short years in which America's most popular industry reinvented itself.

Here is the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when movies were totally transformed and the American public cemented its love affair with Hollywood. As Scott Eyman demonstrates in his fascinating account of this exciting era, it was a time when fortunes, careers, and lives were made and lost, when the American film industry came fully into its own.

In this mixture of cultural and social history that is both scholarly and vastly entertaining, Eyman dispels the myths and gives us the missing chapter in the history of Hollywood, the ribbon of dreams by which America conquered the world.

Author: Scott Eyman
ISBN-10: 1501103830
ISBN-13: 9781501103834
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2015
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.30d