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unusual facts about Walkie-talkie


Walkie-talkie

In addition to land mobile use, walkie-talkie designs are also used for marine VHF and aviation communications, especially on smaller boats and ultralight aircraft where mounting a fixed radio might be impractical or expensive.


Ardeshir Irani

In 1933, Irani produced and directed the first Persian talkie Dokhtar-e-Lor.

Ardeshir Irani became the father of talkie films with the release of his sound feature film, Alam Ara on 14 March 1931.

Ayodhyecha Raja

After the 2003 fire at the National Archives of India, Pune in which prints of first Indian talkie Alam Ara (1931) were lost, it is also the earliest surviving talkie of Indian cinema.

Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka

In 1927, the The Jazz Singer was released in the United States as the first talkie film, and Japanese film companies began working on creating them as well.

Dena Paona

Based on a novel by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay and produced by New Theatres, it is credited as the one of first Bengali talkies, and along with Alam Ara, was one of the first sound films produced in India.

Direct connect

Sprint Direct Connect, a brand name used by Sprint Corporation for its digital push-to-talk service, similar to a walkie-talkie

Emma Dunn

One more silent film followed in 1924, Pied Piper Malone, before she made her talkie debut in Side Street co-starring the Moore brothers, Matt, Owen and Tom as her sons.

F. Richard Jones

Dick Jones' first talkie was a mystery/thriller starring Ronald Colman and Joan Bennett titled Bulldog Drummond (1929).

Gabriel Gabrio

In 1927, Gabrio began appearing in international films, such as 1927's Georg Jacoby-directed German film Der Faschingskönig, and in 1929 Gabrio made his first and only English language talkie The Inseparables, directed by Adelqui Migliar and John Stafford.

Gertrude Sanborn

The novel's title was borrowed in 1932 by pioneer African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux for his talkie Veiled Aristocrats, a remake of House Behind the Cedars, his 1924 silent film based on the novel by that name by Charles Chesnutt.

Hei Tiki

It is one of four films (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm and On the Friendly Road) which lay claim to be the first "New Zealand talkie", although dubious as the sound was added in America.

Joseph Grossman

He worked with Alfred Hitchcock on his early films, including Blackmail, Britain's first talkie, and is credited as screenwriter with "The Guns of Loos" 1928 and "The Lady From the Sea", 1929.

Julie Dozier

In the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat, based on the novel rather than the musical, Julie, played by Alma Rubens, was not biracial.

Juliet Burke

They leave shortly after, leaving behind a walkie-talkie, picked up by Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro).

Kapoor family

(Prithviraj Kapoor acted in Alam Ara in 1931, which was also the first talkie film of India)

Katherine Thurston

Two more films were made using the American book title The Masquerader in 1922 and then by the Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1933 as a "talkie" starring Ronald Colman.

Kenwood Corporation

Kenwood has offered lines of HF, VHF/UHF, and portable amateur radio models, including some with built-in digital data modes (Automatic Packet Reporting System, built on AX.25 packet radio) and modems needed to send and receive these protocols.

Khursheed Bano

Khursheed Bano started her film career as Shehla in the silent film Eye For An Eye (1931) the year when the first talkie film (Alam Ara) of the sub-continent was released.

Liane Haid

Her notable films include Lady Hamilton (1921; her breakthrough role); Lucrezia Borgia (1926); Die Csardasfürstin (1927, based on the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán); and the talkies Das Lied ist aus (The Song Is Ended) (1930) and Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn (1936).

On the Friendly Road

It is one of four films made in 1935 (with The Devil's Pit, Down on the Farm, and Hei Tiki) which lay claim to be the first 'New Zealand talkie", although dubious as the film was not released until 1936.

Prabhat Film Company

But soon the company realized its mistake, and joined the talkie era with Ayodhyecha Raja (The King of Ayodhya) in Marathi (1932), also starring Durga Khote, which was the first film of Marathi Cinema, and later made under the name Ayodhya Ka Raja in Hindi.

Prepared guitar

Martín Irigoyen of Vernian Process and Erik Sanko, both of whom use electronic devices, hand ventilators, walkie-talkies, paper clips, aluminum foil, credit cards and tweezers.

Ralph Morgan

In the early talkie era he played such leading roles in such productions as Strange Interlude in 1932 and Rasputin and the Empress also in 1932.

The Lady in Ermine

The story was remade as an early talkie musical in Technicolor, Bride of the Regiment (1930), also released by First National and also considered a lost film.

The Private Life of Helen of Troy

That same year, the first "talkie", The Jazz Singer, received an honorary award for introducing sound to film, and the category for which The Private Life of Helen of Troy was nominated was dropped by the second Academy Awards.

Theresa Harris

In 1929, she traveled to Hollywood and lent her singing voice to the talkie Thunderbolt.

Two Black Crows

The second "Moran and Mack" talkie (without George Moran) faltered at the box office, and the team made no further films until 1933, when the low-budget Educational Pictures studio hired them for a feature film and a series of "Two Black Crows" short subjects.

What a Widow!

What a Widow! was Swanson's second talkie and was executive produced by her then lover Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. The film received generally positive reviews and was noted for its animated title sequence created by William Dietz but was met with lukewarm box office returns.

Will Vodery

His arrangements for the show were used again in the London production of the show (1928), and the first revival on Broadway (1932), as well as in both the Universal Pictures film version (1936), and the prologue to the part-talkie 1929 film version (also by Universal) of Edna Ferber's novel, on which the show is based.

Women They Talk About

Women They Talk About (1928) is a part-talkie film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and released by Warner Brothers.


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