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When Films Learned to Talk (Pre-1930 Talkies)

Films must meet all of these requirements to be added:
1. Synchronized score and/or sound effects
2. Recorded dialogue for any/all portion(s) of the film (a "talkie")
3. Released prior to 1930
4. Exist in its entirety and not be "lost" (either in an archive somewhere or digitally online)

Films that can't be added because they are not on Letterboxd:
- Should a Girl Marry? (1928)
- The End of the Simpletons (1929)
- Hold Your Man (1929)
- In Old California (1929)
- Noisy Neighbors (1929)

Primarily sourced from here

  • The Jazz Singer
  • Glorious Betsy
  • Speedy
  • The Lion and the Mouse
  • Lonesome
  • Lights of New York
  • Hit of the Show
  • The Singing Fool
  • The Barker
  • The Battle of the Sexes
  • Land of the Silver Fox
  • Show Folks
  • Beware of Bachelors
  • Noah's Ark
  • Interference
  • Sal of Singapore
  • Marriage by Contract
  • Taxi 13
  • The Spieler
  • Brotherly Love
  • In Old Arizona
  • The Divine Lady
  • Hearts in Dixie
  • Innocents of Paris
  • The Love Doctor
  • The Jazz Age
  • Kitty
  • I Kiss Your Hand, Madame
  • Geraldine
  • Lady of the Pavements
  • Love In The Desert
  • The Broadway Melody
  • Piccadilly
  • Lucky Boy
  • His Captive Woman
  • The Greyhound Limited
  • Weary River
  • The Canary Murder Case
  • The Iron Mask
  • The Leatherneck
  • The Carnation Kid
  • The Office Scandal
  • Syncopation
  • The Younger Generation
  • The Dummy
  • The Shakedown
  • Square Shoulders
  • The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City
  • The Letter
  • Kid Gloves
  • High Treason
  • Wolf Song
  • Chinatown Nights
  • Coquette
  • Hardboiled Rose
  • Strange Cargo
  • My Lady's Past
  • The Wild Party
  • The Desert Song
  • Close Harmony
  • The Voice of the City
  • The Charlatan
  • Sonny Boy
  • Nothing but the Truth
  • Alibi
  • The Pagan
  • The Hole in the Wall
  • Bulldog Drummond
  • Gentlemen of the Press
  • The Black Watch
  • The Squall
  • Two Weeks Off
  • The Valiant
  • Father and Son
  • A Dangerous Woman
  • Rainbow Man
  • The Cocoanuts
  • White Cargo
  • Border Romance
  • The Man I Love
  • Broadway
  • On With the Show!
  • The Studio Murder Mystery
  • Careers
  • The Flying Marine
  • The Trial of Mary Dugan
  • The Idle Rich
  • The Wheel of Life
  • The Fall of Eve
  • Thunderbolt
  • The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  • The River of Romance
  • High Voltage
  • Broadway Babies
  • Behind That Curtain
  • Come Across
  • Mother's Boy
  • Fashions in Love
  • The City of Play
  • Divorce Made Easy