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The Canary Murder Case (1929, Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle)

March 29th, 2007 No Comments

As an example of a transitional sound film–Canary Murder Case was filmed as a silent, then reconfigured as a talkie–the film’s very interesting. It’s an early talkie (1929) so there’s no sound design–there’s rarely any noise besides the talking and few sound effects, the actors aren’t ready for talking (for the most part), and the […]