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A
sound film
is a
motion picture
(or
movie
) with
sound
that has been
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.