I B L I O G R A P H Y O F F I L M S O U N D H I S T O R Y R E F
E R E N C E S - Fifty years of sound by John Aldred
Cinematographer Sept. 1981 (p 888-889 892-897)-- History of
development of sound in films. a short technical history of "the
talkies", including a brief movie-sound landmark cronography -
Know your by Welford Beaton Los Angeles Howard Hill (1932)
Hollywood movie critic Welford Beaton seriously predicted that
talkies would become a major fiasco. Audiences would rather use
their imagination and therefore they would want go back to the
silent films. - The Invention of the Movies (1891-1918) 140 of
the first moving pictures ever seen, spanning the birth of
cinema from 1891-1918 (4 discs) of this page 13/12 2000 Film
Sound Design Oxford University: "...an excellent collection of
resources