What is Sound movie?
[[File:ShowgirlHollywood.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Movie poster|''Show Girl in Hollywood'' (1930) was one of the first sound movies about sound filmmaking.]] A '''sound film''' is a [[motion picture]] (or [[movie]]) with [[Audio|sound]] that has been [[Synchronizing|synchronised]] with the image. Before sound films, there was only [[silent film]], and [[dialogue]] was shown in words on the screen. The first known exhibition of sound movies took place in [[Paris]] in 1900. But sound movies were not widely made commercially until a long time later. The first commercial screening of a short sound movie took place in [[New York City]] in April 1923. They are now the standard kind of technology for [[movie]] making. The first sound film was THE JAZZ SINGER. {{movie-stub}} [[Category:Movie terminology]] [[Category:Sound]] [[Category:Audio technology]]