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What was the first all-talking movie?

By Pamela Landy

The first all-talking movie was not The Jazz Singer (1927), which only featured sound in parts, but The Lights of New York (1928), a Warner Brothers gangster movie.

The New York Times called it “seven reels of speech.”

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