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Meaning of "talking picture" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TALKING PICTURE

talking picture  [ˈtɔːkɪŋ ˈpɪktʃə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TALKING PICTURE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Talking picture is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TALKING PICTURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

talking picture

Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplification and recording quality were also inadequate. Innovations in sound-on-film led to the first commercial screening of short motion pictures using the technology, which took place in 1923. The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid- to late 1920s. At first, the sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue—known as "talking pictures", or "talkies"—were exclusively shorts; the earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology. Sound-on-film, however, would soon become the standard for talking pictures.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TALKING PICTURE


acupuncture
ˈækjʊˌpʌŋktʃə
architecture
ˈɑːkɪˌtɛktʃə
conjecture
kənˈdʒɛktʃə
depicture
dɪˈpɪktʃə
facture
ˈfæktʃə
fracture
ˈfræktʃə
infrastructure
ˈɪnfrəˌstrʌktʃə
juncture
ˈdʒʌŋktʃə
lecture
ˈlɛktʃə
manufacture
ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃə
microstructure
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌstrʌktʃə
multipicture
ˌmʌltɪˈpɪktʃə
overpicture
ˌəʊvəˈpɪktʃə
picture
ˈpɪktʃə
picture-in-picture
ˌpɪktʃəɪnˈpɪktʃə
puncture
ˈpʌŋktʃə
restructure
riːˈstrʌktʃə
stricture
ˈstrɪktʃə
structure
ˈstrʌktʃə
venipuncture
ˈvɛnɪˌpʌŋktʃə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TALKING PICTURE

talkative
talkatively
talkativeness
talkback
talkbox
talker
talkfest
talkie
talkier
talkiest
talkiness
talking
Talking Book
talking film
talking head
talking point
talking shop
talking-to
talks
talky

WORDS THAT END LIKE TALKING PICTURE

adventure
capital structure
computer architecture
data structure
deep structure
fine structure
get the picture
in the picture
information architecture
landscape architecture
lumbar puncture
macrostructure
motion picture
prefecture
remanufacture
sentence structure
stress fracture
substructure
tincture
ultrastructure
word picture

Synonyms and antonyms of talking picture in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «talking picture» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TALKING PICTURE

Find out the translation of talking picture to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of talking picture from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «talking picture» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

有声电影
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

película hablada
570 millions of speakers

English

talking picture
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बात कर चित्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تتحدث الصورة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

говорить картина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falando de imagem
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কথোপকথন ছবি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

film parlant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bercakap gambar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tonfilm
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トーキー映画
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이야기 그림
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngomong gambar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nói hình ảnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பேசும் படம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बोलणारे चित्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sesli film
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

picture parlare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozmawia obraz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

говорити картина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

imagine vorbesc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μιλάμε εικόνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

praat prentjie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

talande bild
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

snakker bilde
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of talking picture

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TALKING PICTURE»

The term «talking picture» is regularly used and occupies the 101.774 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TALKING PICTURE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about talking picture

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2 QUOTES WITH «TALKING PICTURE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word talking picture.
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Pauline Kael
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TALKING PICTURE»

Discover the use of talking picture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to talking picture and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Navajo Talking Picture: Cinema on Native Ground
Randolph Lewis offers an insightful introduction and analysis of Navajo Talking Picture, in which he shows that it is not simply the first Navajo-produced film but also a path-breaking work in the history of indigenous media in the United ...
Randolph Lewis, 2012
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The Educational Talking Picture
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Frederick Leonard Devereux, 2010
3
The Witch's Dog and the Talking Picture
Wilf, the Witch's Dog, is very excited about the painting competition for witches' pets.
Frank Rodgers, 2006
4
The American Theatrical Film: Stages in Development
Tonight, carrying on the Frohman tradition, I once more welcome you on behalf of the greatest era in entertainment — an era made possible through this miraculous invention, the talking picture. No more will our best plays be confined to the ...
John C. Tibbetts, 1985
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Hollywood Musicals Year by Year
In the show, they express their romantic feelings in "If I Had a Talking Picture of You" and Miss Gaynor does a solo tum to the wistful "I'm a Dreamer. Aren't We All ?" The movie also offers the first purely cinematic production number in Tum on ...
Stanley Green, 1999
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Silent Film Sound
Repeatedly, talking picture supporters called for actors to be brought closer to the camera. As Will Stevens put it, In watching the work of the talking pictures it occurs to one that manufacturers of film now have a new condition to reckon with,  ...
Rick Altman, 2007
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Talking Pictures
[a] truly intelligent play, one that is literary and heartfelt, beautifully written...a well-crafted, moving story...a dramatic rarity in these or any times.
Horton Foote, 1996
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The ...
Accompanied by the 'witty antithesis' attributed by Pliny (De gloria Atheniensium 3.347a) to Simonides of Chios, the chiastic poesia tacens, pictura loquens (' painting is mute poetry, poetry a talking picture'), Horace's defining tag (Ars poetica ...
George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton, 1999
9
A Talking Picture
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Talking Picture (Portuguese: Um Filme Falado) is a 2003 Portuguese film written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
10
The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections, 1877-1934
The talking picture would necessarily have to include entertainment as well as instructive features. I can think of no picture more thrillingly fascinating than a picture portraying Negro life and history from the early days up to the present.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Herbert Aptheker, 1973

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TALKING PICTURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term talking picture is used in the context of the following news items.
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Talking pictures at the Avalon Theatre
The Avalon Theatre on Connecticut Avenue NW started out showing silent pictures, but that doesn't mean it was silent in the auditorium. “I think the organ was ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
2
Manoel de Oliveira had entered history long before dying
He routinely adapted literary works from past centuries, and at least two of his greatest films, Inquietude (1998) and A Talking Picture (2003), consider the notion ... «Chicago Reader, Apr 15»
3
Talking Pictures with a Film Curator of 45 Years
Charles Silver has worked at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) since 1970, first in the film studies center and then (and still) as a curator in the department of ... «Hyperallergic, Mar 15»
4
Talking Pictures On Demand 2/28/15
Reviews of the new mystery "Wild Canaries," Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice," and "Maps to the Stars," the latest from David Cronenberg; interviews with ... «NY1, Mar 15»
5
Talking Pictures On Demand 1/31/15
Time Warner Cable News movie critic Neil Rosen and a panel of fellow reviewers discuss the week's latest movies available on Time Warner Cable On Demand ... «NY1, Feb 15»
6
Talking pictures
I'm talking pictures this week with a man so inside we should call him the Minister for Meta, the one and only Jack the Insider, blogger for The Australian. «ABC Online, Nov 14»
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Talking Picture: Out of This World Film
Raquel Baldwin from Talking Pictures joined Midday today to give her review of Interstellar. Here is what she had to say: "In the near future Earth has been ... «Good4Utah, Nov 14»
8
Oscars: U2 Writes One From The Heart For Nelson Mandela …
... him and The Edge before taking the stage to moderate a discussion with them and Mandela stars Idris Elba and Naomie Harris for the PSIFF's Talking Pictures ... «Deadline.com, Jan 14»
9
Charlie Chaplin's Talking Pictures
on the soundtrack of “The Jazz Singer,” the first talking picture, in 1927. Suddenly, every movie actor ran the risk of instant obsolescence, every director needed ... «New Yorker, Jan 14»
10
Still frame from Jeff Jackson's movie
It's probably one of hardest acts to follow. The name “Taos Talking Pictures” still resonates with fans not only in Taos, but the state of New Mexico, Hollywood ... «taosnews, Nov 13»

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