Talkie

Tom called Mary on a walkie talkie.

She watched an English talkie from the 1930s, and she was fascinated by how the language and technology have evolved since then.

On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.

“We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.”

"[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts.