num_pages: 416
description: The author of Mary America's Sweetheart provides an account of the bad and the good that happened in Hollywood after Al Jolson first opened ears in the Jazz Singer, the seminal film that led to the rise of new stars and a decline of the old ones. 12,500 first printing.
language: English
title: The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930
titlecomplete: The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930
genres: Audiobook, Art, Media Tie In, Nonfiction, Technology, American History, Film, Science, History, Pop Culture
ratings_count: 218
publisher: Simon & Schuster