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talkies

1. plural of talkie
2. (dated) Talking movies.
   • 2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (0:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎^[1], season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou):

     “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.”

• Used when movies with synchronized recorded speech became common in filmed entertainment in the 1930s, in contrast to silent films, which printed dialog and were often accompanied by music.

• atslike, lakiest