The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930
Scott EymanHere 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.
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Scott Eyman was formerly the literary critic at The Palm Beach Post & is the author or coauthor of sixteen books, including the bestseller Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda & James Stewart, Louis B. Mayer: Lion of Hollywood, Print the Legend: The Life & Times of John Ford, Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex and Politics Collided, & You Must Remember This with actor Robert Wagner. Eyman also writes book reviews for The Wall Street Journal, & has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Film Comment, the New York Observer & the Chicago Tribune. He & his wife, Lynn, live in West Palm Beach.