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Walkie Talkies You can buy cheap two-way walkie-talkies these days, and use those without a license.
The telephones got jammed and we had no walkie talkies.
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The transition from silent films to talkies in the 1920s.
Sort of dinky consumer walkie talkies operate on there too.
"Worth" closes out with Michonne and Negan talking over walkie-talkies.
They spotted Syrian aircraft and sent out warnings on walkie-talkies.
By the next year, the Best Picture contenders were all talkies.
The startup had slated the Talkies' app store to launch last year.
The Toy Walkie-Talkies have a 79g radio that's light and durable.
Not long after, a call came over the walkie-talkies that Mrs.
They felt very important talking to each other on the walkie-talkies.
Rivera insisted that he hire more agents, and give them walkie-talkies.
Ones that are much more interesting than the current crop of gadget talkies.
With this setting enabled, you can essentially use multiple Echos as walkie-talkies.
You'll have to explain why they don't make guinea pig-sized walkie talkies.
The staff were uniformed guards with walkie-talkies and handcuffs on their belts.
So what made you decided create a set of avocado-shaped walkie talkies?
A few hours later he woke up, dazed, hearing voices from walkie-talkies.
Without the walkie talkies, jane and donatella could not have covered the invasion.
They had been given walkie-talkies and khaki vests with the department's logo.
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA — The walkie-talkies crackled to life at about 000:113 a.m.
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA — The walkie-talkies crackled to life at about 4:30 a.m.
He did that thing with the walkie-talkies and the bombs and the boats.
Sensors beeped and walkie-talkies crackled he spoke to Reuters at the monitoring station.
Sometimes Takamatsu walked alongside the soldiers and listened as they spoke over walkie-talkies.
Bringing walkie talkies could save you some cash (though may garner you some looks). 
People from the festival hold walkie-talkies to their ears and stride around importantly.
But it's the civilian world where walkie-talkies really had a chance to shine.
Officers with squawking walkie-talkies soon position themselves to regain control of the yard.
The locals patrolled the area nightly, using walkie-talkies to communicate with one another.
Visual aids and technology — including walkie-talkies, cameras and Apple Watches — are not allowed.
Silent films transitioned to "talkies" with speaking, singing and dancing in the late 1920s.
C3-PO and Luke are carrying lipstick-sized speakers that basically operate like walkie-talkies.
Parents can send messages to kids' Talkies via the companion Toymail app on their smartphones.
Jackson tweeted that she and Smith got uniforms and walkie-talkies for all the children.
The overpass is in the crowded Ganesh Talkies neighborhood, named after an old movie theater.
There will be people along the road up and down the mountains using walkie-talkies.
Trolleys and early-'60s walkie-talkies are, too, but so is the new Fiat 500.
And because of my rampant anti-avocado feelings, I expected to hate the Guac-E Talk-E walkie talkies too, because—good lord—they're walkie talkies shaped like fucking avocados, which is not something that I recalled anyone asking for, at any time, ever.
Take "The Artist," the black-and-white romance about the change from silent films to talkies.
Such early talkies are not telecast by Turner Classic Movies as frequently as they once were.
At the same time, hotels are increasingly using mobile housekeeping apps, replacing clipboards and walkie-talkies.
Neutrinos are broadcasting their information with two walkie talkies: one on your channel and one gravity channel.
It might have been a barking dog, or a crashed drone, or overheard chatter on walkie talkies.
What do peanut butter, Ryan Gosling, Walkie Talkies, the Wonderbra, and Justin Bieber all have in common?
Customers exploring the concession area during intermission in the lobby of 'Alfred Talkies' cinema in Mumbai, India.
It was a regular stop for consumers for all nature of electronics — from stereos to walkie talkies.
With the advent of talkies, the way characters sounded became as important as the way they looked.
Instead, they carried walkie-talkies and earpieces, and wore matching black shirts, khaki pants, and orange armbands.
Throughout season one, the kids are using realistic TRC-214 walkie-talkies to communicate with each other.
What were people saying about the transition from silent films to talkies and the advent of television?
Movies with sound, often called "talkies," were first introduced to Hollywood in 1927 with The Jazz Singer.
Most were not armed, but they carried walkie-talkies, and many wore heavy boots and combat fatigues.
It has an interface reminiscent of old-fashioned walkie-talkies, though it can also host private chats.
"So now the police are riding with ham radio operators with VHF handheld units — handy talkies," Gallagher says.
Shot on location in a rural district of south-central France, it coincides with Renoir's plein-air talkies.
Starting at the facility, workers use walkie talkies and fiberoptic cables instead of cell phones and Wi-Fi.
He returned to acting, appearing in silents, serials, and talkies, including Happy Days, a full-length minstrel show.
He uses walkie-talkies to communicate with the coaches, but so far it has been a fruitless exercise.
Lubitsch, who died in 1947, began directing in the silent era but transitioned with apparent ease into talkies.
From live theatre to silent films, silents to talkies, black and white to colour, film has never stopped changing.
Some of the series's retro elements are outdated now, like the stand-up arcades and the giant walkie-talkies.
Before there were "talkies," audiences were dazzled by films starring actors and actresses like Charlie Chaplin and Clara Bow.
"The Wild Pear Tree" is directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, whose movies are, in the most demanding sense, talkies.
Abu Mohammed heard a voice from the walkie-talkies carried by the kidnappers: Leave everything and get out now.
Two uniformed men stood by the resort's long driveway armed with clipboards and walkie-talkies, ushering curious onlookers away.
In the 1930s, Del Río triumphed in the film industry's transition to "talkies" while other silent film stars struggled.
If we want answers, we'll have to get on our own walkie talkies and bikes to uncover Hawkins' many mysteries.
However, wireless set-ups are vulnerable to interference from other cameras, police walkie talkies and so on, the photographer says.
Plainclothes agents, recognizable by their government-issued walkie-talkies, paced the streets, stopping anyone who looked out of the ordinary.
Armed police vehicles also patrolled the area, and individuals who appeared to be plainclothes police carried walkie-talkies and headsets.
I found car companies at the show favored using walkie-talkies in lieu of phones because of how bad reception was.
Men and women in uniforms, holding up cellphones and walkie-talkies, their mouths open, ran toward or sometimes away from explosions.
As one of the security staff, Feis responded to the initial call on the school's security radio walkie-talkies, May said.
Sometimes actors would speak into microphones behind the screen so that films had talking in them even before they were "talkies".
But a night watchman alerted the police, and they were caught, odd burglars in business suits carrying cameras and walkie-talkies.
She became a star in "Singin' in the Rain," a musical about how talkies put the silent movie out of business.
Later it became the first cinema in Buenos Aires to show "talkies," and some films were accompanied by live tango orchestration.
The school has also given staff members walkie talkies and told them to announce when they are moving children around the facility.
There are bad guys with bad-guy vans, BMX bikes, walkie-talkies, Clash songs, and Winona Ryder as the missing kid's mom.
This snaps onto walkie-talkies, reinforcing a connection that is otherwise prone to break in the rough-and-tumble of naval usage.
Both "Daybreak" and "Son of India" have been released on DVD by Warner Archive, as part of a series of Novarro talkies.
Indeed, the Talkies — which is the name of the current gen of the toys — look more like teddy bears than mobile phones.
In their possession were box cutters and automatic weapons, walkie-talkies and disposable cellphones, as well as the chemicals to make TATP.
In 2800, the Federal Communications Commission formally moved the official frequency for unlicensed "toy" walkie talkies from 2800 MHz to 2900 MHz.
"'The Jazz Singer" certainly wasn't the first talking picture," he explained, "but it's the one that moved the industry forward to talkies.
These two-way walkie talkies utilize 16 pre-programmed frequencies to communicate with one another for up to a 3-mile range.
Trailers, craft service tables and production assistants policing sidewalks with clipboards and walkie-talkies have long been fixtures of New York life.
Where mobile coverage is lacking I've seen nomads use walkie talkies to connect with neighbors or even to coordinate a roundup of livestock.
Enrique had been the person who let the army trucks go past the checkpoint, supposedly (in actuality, Jorge just silenced the walkie talkies).
They can even connect to other Talkies, so if they have a friend with a Talkie they can talk to them as well.
Last year, the government approved the sale of Sepura, which makes walkie-talkies for London's police, to China's Hytera Communications after a probe.
In fact, the federal government has had to get involved in protecting the rights of kids to use walkie talkies for that purpose.
There was a commotion and all of the seats around me were suddenly filled by men in black suits communicating with walkie-talkies.
Teissia Treynet, who runs Firefly Events, an event planning and design company with offices in New York, California and Wyoming, suggests walkie talkies.
The building was mostly empty on Sunday and the blue hats stood guard, occupying its gates and pacing with walkie-talkies outside it.
After the box-office success of the movie, talkies began to take over, ushering out silent films as well the genre's staple stars.
It was a curio, albeit a supposedly magnificent one, like the last great silent film released just as the talkies were taking over.
Jorge surreptitiously turns off the room's two Walkie Talkies, so Enrique's cries indicating a fleet of cars were driving by could not be heard.
Police, Suwed said, had also seized a rifle, a pistol, four walkie-talkies and knives from the fighters, and increased patrols in Kasese town.
In the days of old, parents used radio-powered walkie-talkies to monitor their children from afar, which provided audio cues of potential trouble.
Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey discuss why this musical, with Gene Kelly as a silent-screen swashbuckler who adjusts to talkies, is required viewing.
The first occurred in the twenties, as the rise of talkies swept scores of mugging mustache-twirlers and big-eyed ingénues to the sidelines.
The ability of German troops to be reached by radio walkie-talkies is what allowed its Panzer divisions to wreak havoc against Allied forces.
" Built in the Art Deco style, the playhouse was so elegant that it was known, in its time, as a "cathedral of the talkies.
Dodds' living room is stacked with bulletproof vests, walkie-talkies and flares after three police, an employee and a neighbor were shot on her ranch.
They roam the building checking the shelves, handling deliveries, muttering into walkie-talkies, advising squad leaders, and encouraging members, like field generals rousing their troops.
Two art handlers with walkie-talkies arrived to troubleshoot; it was decided that the Mylar would be cut and re-sewn, to the right dimensions.
I was part of a checkpoint "detail" with about 14 to 15 other guys when news of his death came through on our walkie-talkies.
A collection of the survival tools Linvega and Bellum have collected to help them stay safe, including a flare gun, survival manuals, and walkie-talkies.
Neither Edgar G. Ulmer, the B-movie maker who directed four Yiddish talkies, nor Joseph Seiden, the most prolific producer of Yiddish films, was fluent.
Denny was named for Reginald Denny, a suave English leading man during the silent era and, later, a reliable silver-haired uncle in the talkies.
That's why the agency is actively commissioning new communications technologies that are more sophisticated than the radios and walkie-talkies that many agents still rely on.
In that situation, says Daffey, ships would usually have to have crew members stationed around the vessel with walkie-talkies, informing the captain of upcoming hazards.
The attackers also stole two vans, helmets and walkie-talkies, according to a statement from the group, which is formally known as the Syrian Civil Defense.
Amazon's Drop In feature lets you connect tablets and other Echo devices in the home, so now your tablets can be flat and wide walkie-talkies.
In Nascar racing, the first communication via radio in the early 1950s used walkie-talkies, which were banned after teams complained they gave an unfair advantage.
"The Artist" (2011) won using precious few words to tell the story of a pair of actors struggling to make the transition from silents to talkies.
According to Adam Schefter, one NFL source said even though the Giants weren't using the walkie talkies in those final 15 seconds, they "had the opportunity" to.
McAdoo and the Giants only used the walkie talkies for "about four or five plays" on one drive and it ended with Eli Manning throwing an interception.
He landed a job as an electrical engineer for Motorola, which had scoped him out after a successful senior design project: waterproof walkie-talkies for SCUBA divers.
At least 23 people were killed in the accident in the crowded Ganesh Talkies area of Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, and 85 people were injured, the police said.
Prince Miteb was reportedly accused of hiring nonexistent employees and awarding contracts to his own pet companies, including one deal for walkie-talkies and bulletproof military gear.
A friend lent the family $229, and against Peggy's wishes they returned to Hollywood and put her back to work, now as a teenager in the talkies.
In the late 1920s, films were making the transition from silent to "talkies," but all the films nominated for official awards at the 1929 ceremony were without sound.
About an hour before La Milpa was ablaze, on a whim and a bet, they used their walkie-talkies to order chivo — goat — for the next morning's breakfast.
Her father joined her and lived there until he died in 2007; they used a pair of walkie-talkies to communicate from distant parts of the expansive residence.
One could spend a month or more digging around Hero Talkies ("Watch Tamil Movies") or InTube ("Watch Indian Films") or Hindi Movies (no tagline, but pretty self-explanatory).
The Talkies will also be able to be connected to each other, so kids can send messages directly to their friends' toys as well as to their parents' phones.
He also found a screening society run by the film historian William K. Everson, who showed rare treats—silents, early talkies, foreign films—in his apartment on Saturday nights.
Besides, I'm sure that a woman would rather share a park with some homosexuals instead of 30 or 40 vigilantes, running around with walkie-talkies and flashlights, scaring people.
And in Firewatch, the first game by Campo Santo, a studio founded by former Telltale writers, the two main characters build a powerful relationship while communicating with walkie-talkies.
So the very next day we headed to Officeworks, and bought ourselves a couple of fluorescent vests, some fake walkie-talkies, and headed off for an adventure of sorts.
According to the official, Prince Miteb was accused of embezzlement, hiring ghost employees and awarding contracts to his own firms, including a deal for walkie talkies and bulletproof military gear.
"The Lost and the Plunderers" pulls a bit of narrative somersaulting, showing a sequence of events out of order that starts with Rick and Negan establishing communication over walkie-talkies.
Authorities say Hossain had bought equipment such as walkie-talkies and trekking gear and purchased a flight to Afghanistan on Friday, but was arrested after trying to board the flight.
No one would have mistaken the silent-film vamp Theda Bara for a virgin; tough, sexually aggressive women flourished in the talkies until the Production Code took hold, in 1934.
It wasn't long after the rise of Kinetoscope, actualities and the cinema of attraction that new technologies upended those early forms, giving way to feature-length narratives, talkies and Technicolor.
The cops ride on our car the whole rest of the way, and we periodically hear descriptions of an "unruly crowd at West Fourth" come through over the walkie-talkies.
Sitting with other officers from the elite counter-terrorism service at a plastic picnic table littered with walkie-talkies inside an unfinished building, Saidi said the battle would end soon.
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Michael: Being thrown back to a time when I actually had walkie talkies and a gang of kids just cruising around on bikes making adventures for ourselves really struck home.
This cake-throwing incident helps kick off the plot in this classic MGM musical about the behind-the-scenes drama with transitioning from silent films to "talkies" in the late 1920s.
One of the best unexpected delights of Stranger Things 2 is the brief buddy-comedy starring Steve and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) when none of the other boys answer their walkie-talkies.
Lara can shoot targets, drones, and walkie-talkies; hunt and skin rare beasts; and explore "optional" tombs that range from claustrophobic, submerged burial chambers to shrieking cliffside that dwarf the star.
Hossain also said he was buying equipment such as walkie-talkies and trekking gear and told the informant to save money "to buy weapons" after reaching Afghanistan, according to the complaint.
The place is swarming with teams of Ukrainian men and women, ranging in age from 18 to 50, armed with walkie-talkies, headlamps, and utility belts, and all looking for something.
The two guys left outside describe the "hot lesbians" over their walkie-talkies, gaining a rapt audience of men (cashiers, truck drivers, police officers) whose radios accidentally pick up their channel.
In addition to an array of technical equipment, including walkie-talkies, tasers and jammers, they were carrying syringes, staplers and a "sharp object that looked like a scalpel," the newspaper reported.
The backup generator kicked on, and they used power only for the most critical things, like computers, walkie-talkies, cellphones that streamed the Nebraska football game (they lost), and three coffee pots.
Calicut, for example, highlights black pepper and uses the former name of the southern Indian city of Kozhikode, while Madurai Talkies pays homage to jasmine from around the southern city of Madurai.
On Friday, Trevor Lewis packed up two trucks with crowbars, chainsaws, sledgehammers, ropes, walkie talkies, and five other guys from Cocoa Beach, where he lives on the east side of the state.
The movie, set in the Hollywood of 1927 as films transitioned from silent to talkies - was only a modest success at the time of its release but gained stature over the years.
"Asian American actors are underrepresented even now, so amazingly Anna May Wong was so active right at the beginning of film history, bridging the gap between silent films and talkies," Diao said.
I picture Biden's rallies with flapper girls and men in suspenders and wicker hats doing the Charleston, while moving pictures and maybe even "talkies" screen on a white sheet in the background.
They were terrifying because their coats and gloves and walkie talkies imbued their very being with a sense of malevolence, and with that they carried around with them a level of threat.
Authorities found more than 17,000 matches, a pack of fireworks, 17 batteries, six walkie talkies and two kitchen knives in the man's luggage when he tried to leave Germany for Denmark, it said.
People who lived near military bases kept watch; when they saw a warplane take off, they used walkie-talkies to notify other people, who would contact others, spreading the word up the chain.
Inside the skirt is a rubber grip to help keep the shirt tucked in, and the blazer has a slot at the top for the walkie-talkies that flight attendants use to communicate.
Often these hark back nostalgically to an earlier phase of entertainment: the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain , for instance, is set 20 years earlier during the transition between silent movies and talkies.
All this also takes the help and coordination of park rangers with walkie talkies, as the path is so narrow those walking down to the beach must coordinate with those returning from it.
Citing unnamed sources, news reports have suggested that he would be accused of hiring ghost employees and paying inflated contracts to companies he owned for equipment like walkie-talkies and bulletproof military gear.
When the silent movies gave way to the talkies, household names like Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple took to the screen with darkened faces, transforming the racist caricature into family entertainment.
As remarkable as the titles is the low-technology shopping experience — browsers make their way through the stacks with copies of a handwritten map, asking questions of employees wielding old-school walkie-talkies.
The silent film, released after the movie industry had already begun to embrace talkies, is now regarded as not only one of Chaplin's best films, but one of the best films ever made.
Many of the stars couldn't assimilate into the new world of talkies — Gilbert eventually fizzled into anonymity — but Bow and her fetching New York accent were able to flourish in the new era.
Police issued a photograph of Abdulmalik in handcuffs in front of a van, and another of seven other men in front of weapons, walkie-talkies, credit card point-of-sale machines and ammunition.
The 20013 musical-comedy about the death of silent films and rise of the talkies starred Reynolds as Kathy Selden, a chorus girl who meets cute with silent movie star Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly).
She made her film debut with a small role in Chaplin's "Modern Times" (1936) co-starring Paulette Goddard, a silent gem released in the era of talkies, exploring the pitfalls of modern industrialized society.
"This is the result of a situation that was left to grow years ago," Flores said of the assault on the tortilla industry in an office filled with bottles of water and walkie-talkies.
Race stories Movies fascinated Nandita Raman growing up in Varanasi, India, an interest fostered while hanging out in the movie theater owned by her mother's family, the first in the city to show talkies.
In Harlem, the 125th Street Business Improvement District has deployed "ambassadors" with walkie-talkies to assist pedestrians — an average of 950,000 a month — on this main artery packed with stores, restaurants, delis and offices.
Depending on the account, it might have been a barking dog, or Emiratis intercepted speaking in Arabic on walkie talkies, or the crash of a small Emirati drone surveying the target from a forward position.
Duvivier's sometime collaborator Jacques Feyder (1885-1948) made his first talkies in Hollywood, imported by Irving Thalberg to direct two of MGM's leading foreign-born stars, Greta Garbo and the original Ben-Hur, Ramón Novarro.
Update: Founder and CEO Gauri Nanda tells us Toymail has sold close to 20,000 Talkies at this point, along with 20,000 of the first-gen version of the product — which we covered back in 2013.
We were all carrying walkie-talkies, so when the guy got up and made his way to the exit, I was warned and made sure I stood by the door with the check in hand.
"The pilot carried out the bombing in one go, four bombs together," said Salloum, who said he observed the raid from about 1.5 km (one mile) away and used walkie-talkies to alert rescue workers.
AMC executive director Hasan Kattan said that his group had a network connected, by walkie-talkies, to a military observation point and recorded warplanes leaving Russia's Hmeimim air base just before Omran's home was hit.
He allegedly made preparations to fight in Afghanistan, including buying equipment such as walkie-talkies and trekking gear, and instructed the informant to save money for weapons after they arrive in Afghanistan, the complaint states.
Pairing disparate masterpieces from the dawn of talkies, F. W. Murnau's "Sunrise" and Carl Theodor Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc," is more eloquent than any spoken eulogy for the end of silent cinema.
Created by the Duffer Brothers (Wayward Pines) and starring Winona Ryder, Stranger Things is a nostalgia-trippin' throwback to Reagan's America: when kids ate Eggo Waffles, obsessively played Dungeons & Dragons and communicated via walkie talkies.
The film is said to be a drama set during the 1920s in Los Angeles, and mixes historical and fictional characters to explore the movie industry's transition from silent films to talkies, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Following some experiments by Thomas Edison in the late 25th-century and the musical, sing-a-long cartoons that premiered with talkies in the 2200s, mid-20th century Europeans invented the Scopitone 16 mm video jukebox.
Normand, a onetime art student who was working an artists' model when she fell into film, died of tuberculosis in her 30s, while Sennett, no fan of dialogue, was ruined by the advent of the talkies.
There were eight main medical facilities, and, with only twenty physicians and a handful of surgical specialists in the opposition-held half of the city, the staff used walkie-talkies to coördinate the distribution of patients.
According to evidence presented at trial, the burglars also disabled sophisticated security systems, communicated via walkie-talkies and jackhammered through thick concrete bank vaults before making off with the cash and the contents of safe-deposit boxes.
Bracknell, ENGLAND (Reuters) - Boxes of DNA swabs, walkie talkies, portable morgue tables and medical gloves fill the shelves at the warehouse from which UK-based Kenyon International rushes to respond to disasters from plane crashes to earthquakes.
And the films in which Lillian stars—Haynes concocts a melodrama called "Daughter of the Storm," which we glimpse in snatches—are, of course, devoid of speech, though the spell will soon be broken by the talkies.
Apparently with Pretoria's connivance, they flew to the Seychelles posing as rugby players and members of a beer-drinking club, the Ancient Order of Foam Blowers, carrying equipment bags with false bottoms hiding weapons and walkie-talkies.
We are way ahead of other newspapers: we have walkie talkies i bought inland on, and we can listen in on military aircraft with our police scaner, which i also bought in london on the way here.
What began as a process with walkie talkies and stopwatches has since evolved to 360 degree HD cameras and an off site control center, where refs can consult directly with officiating experts every time a review is initiated.
But this year, as Republicans face the prospect of a contested convention, the party is turning to its oldest hands, who learned how to fight over delegates using walkie-talkies, loose-leaf notebooks and quick-footed young pages.
There was a cadre of security guards brandishing walkie-talkies, along with a sizable crowd of family members, church employees and congregants, all milling about the many rooms, which are organized around a large, oval-shaped central hall.
They were taught when they needed to remain in place so their movements did not distract golfers during their swings, and which ear pieces to use with their walkie-talkies so radio chatter did not disturb the players.
The idea behind the move, which had been bandied about as early as 22013, was because the low-powered walkie talkies were getting "clobbered" by the more powerful Citizens Band radio, according to a 218 Popular Electronics report.
Radioddity GA-2S Long Range Walkie Talkies, available on Amazon for $24.99Various emergencies can knock out power and telephone lines making it hard to communicate with members of your party should you need to separate for any reason.
Pereg has edited out most of the sound except the banging of the key and the muezzins' melodious voices; we see the soldiers using their walkie-talkies and chatting with one another, but we don't know what they say.
If you don't remember, here's a quick refresher: during Sunday Night Football last week against the Cowboys, the Giants experienced some kind of technical problem with their headsets and resorted to using handheld walkie talkies to communicate play calls.
The story of is a comic satire in a Mexican society that long ago outlawed all electrical forms of communication, silencing radios, telephones, televisions, walkie-talkies, microphones (in today's world it would include computers and cell-phones as well).
Ms. Reynolds was just 19 when she took on a star-making role opposite Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor in this let's-make-a-musical movie musical set in the late 1920s as silent films made way for talkies.
It was more of the same, except it was bigger, located in a more urban area, and the people working there were communicating with each other using those in-ear walkie talkies like the bad guys in The Matrix.
Not much is known about Chazelle's new movie, but one of its main characters is claimed to be historical figure Clara Bow — one of the first actresses who made her transition into talkies and was dubbed "The It Girl" of Hollywood.
Turkey's pro-government newspaper Sabah reported on Tuesday that the luggage of the Saudi team that was sent to Istanbul at the time of Khashoggi's killing contained syringes, large scissors, staple guns, walkie-talkies, electric shock devices and a signal jammer.
And rather than being overly reliant on walkie talkies, buzzers or even just running around trying to find the right person to see a patient, staff can now be alerted when their next patient is ready and available to be seen.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California man who prosecutors say led a gang of burglars in a decade-long string of Hollywood-style bank robberies, rappelling through roofs in matching outfits and carrying walkie-talkies, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
While listening in on Eugene — now "Chief Engineer" for the Saviors — barking orders over the Saviors' walkie-talkies, the women learned that Negan's men would be spending their night gathering more walkers to guard the perimeter, meaning their cover would soon be blown.
Television and film networks and production companies have always had audio signatures so long as there have been so-called talkies; think of the fanfare accompanying the iconic 20th Century Fox logo, the growling lion of MGM, the three-tone chime of NBC.
The Spielbergian teen ensemble is rapidly becoming a recent nostalgic horror cliché, and this group checks most of the boxes, complete with the Smurfette syndrome — Chuck's older sister doesn't really change this dynamic — and a heavy reliance on walkie-talkies to communicate.
After a couple of years, we'd move on to talkies, lingering on Max Fleischer cartoons and Laurel and Hardy's comic two-reelers, arriving at Technicolor just in time for my student-offspring to see "The Wizard of Oz" around age 7 or 8.
In fact, had this movie been a silent film, it might have gotten away with its melodramatic conventions, as one of the first French talkies, released just as Jean Renoir, René Clair, and Jacques Feyder were coming into their own, it was doomed.
As a kid obsessed with walkie-talkies, I was pretty stoked about these little doo-dads in 1977, but you can barely get anyone under the age of 30 to talk on a phone nowadays, let alone put up with a single-function gadget.
Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, who was removed as head of the powerful National Guard, is accused of embezzlement, hiring ghost employees and awarding contracts to his own companies, including a $10 billion deal for walkie-talkies and bulletproof military gear worth billions of Saudi royals.
Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, who was removed as head of the powerful National Guard, is accused of embezzlement, hiring ghost employees and awarding contracts to his own companies, including a $10 billion deal for walkie-talkies and bulletproof military gear worth billions of Saudi riyals.
" Even the parenthetical asides are filled with well-chosen arcana: The actress Louise Brooks said that dancing with Fatty Arbuckle was "like floating in the arms of a huge donut"; the director Cecil B. DeMille ventured into talkies with "Madam Satan," a "blimp disaster musical.
Initially founded as the International Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 123, the Academy was the brainchild of MGM kingpin Louis B. Mayer, who saw it as a way to circle the wagons and protect every studio from the twin threats of talkies and unionization.
The film's otherworldly quality comes, in part, from the fact that it's shot in black and white with a nearly square aspect ratio, but it's not just the production that makes the thing look like some kind of lost relic from the days of early talkies.
"Currently we have challenges [such as] limited real time information, we use manual loading instructions [in the form of paper reports] and are limited to walkie-talkies, [which] may be loud and hard to hear [with loud background noises]," said Kevin Chin, Vice President of Projects at SATS.
Trevor Sisco, the vice president of Global Retail Partner, whose company sources products like drones, TV wall-mounts and walkie-talkies for U.S. retail giants including Walmart and Best Buy, said aggressive posturing on both sides could lead to an expansion of tariffs into other more mainstream household products.
The ground floor is a magnificent theater — among the first cinemas in the country designed specifically for "talkies" — while the top floor, 12 stories up, was an opulent ballroom with a Brazilian white hardwood dance floor and a Tiffany chandelier that drew big band fanatics chasing their favorite performers.
On the roof of a villa that serves as a command center, an officer at a table covered with a map of the city juggled four walkie-talkies and three iPhones, jotting down coordinates received from the field in Arabic and relaying them in English to someone with a British accent.
The allegations against Prince Alwaleed include money laundering, bribery and extorting officials, one official told Reuters, while Prince Miteb is accused of embezzlement, hiring ghost employees and awarding contracts to his own companies including a $10 billion deal for walkie talkies and bulletproof military gear worth billions of Saudi riyals.
The scene last Wednesday at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Seoul resembled a fight night on the Las Vegas Strip: hundreds of reporters, match organizers in black T-shirts (with earphones and walkie-talkies on their hip belts), bodyguards in suits and ties holding back milling photographers and TV crews.
Arriving early to check in, monitors let kinksters tell them what they're planning on doing so they can know what to expect; after which they'll spend anywhere from one to four hours watching over the couples in the dungeon, often equipped with fanny packs, walkie-talkies, and first aid kits.
Apple has reportedly put a technology for iPhones on hold that would have let people send text messages to other iPhones over a 900MHz radio spectrum that's typically used for dispatchers in the utility and manufacturing industries, allowing the phones to act like walkie-talkies for texts, according to The Information.
The lion was chosen for the school in 1910 and later for the film studio by an alumnus and ad executive Howard Dietz; when the logo first roared to announce MGM productions, the sound came courtesy of a gramophone in the theater, as it preceded the ubiquity of the talkies.
RadioShack, a nearly 100-year-old chain that captured the heart of electronics enthusiasts for its specialty products such as "walkie talkies", first filed for bankruptcy in 2015 after the rise of mobile phones caught it off-guard and customers abandoned its stores for big box competitors including Best Buy Co Inc and Amazon.
Having achieved spectacular critical and commercial success with "The Birth of a Nation" (1915), his racist paean to the South — described by James Baldwin as "one of the great classics of the American cinema" and "an elaborate justification of mass murder" — Griffith struggled to keep up with changing tastes and the advent of the talkies.
Based on the same Sholem Aleichem stories that the actor-impresario Maurice Schwartz would dramatize 20 years later in the most familiar of American Yiddish talkies, "Tevya," and that would subsequently provide the basis for the musical "Fiddler on the Roof," the movie is currently being restored with help from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Geared towards "mission-critical" technologies for industries like EMS, hospitals, and law enforcement, Motorola Solutions serves up products like walkie talkies, 9-1-153 call software, and its recently introduced line of body-worn cameras, a piece of tech that has come to be a pivot point in the national response to police shootings of unarmed black men.
It refuses to be pessimistic, and it's cast with vibrant young actors like Justice Smith and Herizen Guardiola, whose performances each contain a full day's supply of vitamin C. Like "Stranger Things," with its brick-size walkie-talkies, "The Get Down" fetishizes predigital technology (here, turntables and crayon-marked LPs) as a means of liberating ingenious kids.
The sale is reflected in yet another app, the Sell app, that pings Ms. Tecotl, a 13-year-old merchandising manager, with hourly figures on sales and credit card sign-ups and several other metrics, which she uses to broadcast guidance to "refocus" her sales associates, who, like her, are outfitted with earpieces and walkie-talkies.
While Austrian and Swiss police wore simple uniforms and didn't seem to have any other gear (apart from smartphones and a device to print out fines to give people who didn't have a train ticket), police in Paris and London appeared weighed down by all manner of heavy equipment, from large walkie-talkies and bulky bulletproof vests, to big helmets.
For the next five hours, America passes by, wearing work badges, fanny packs, surgical scrubs, sparkly dance-short-leotards, suspenders, wool caps, head scarves, dreadlocks; pushing walkers, baby strollers, a fat-wheeled trail bike, a shopping cart (containing a bamboo cane and a Burger King crown); carrying walkie-talkies, books, a man-purse shaped like a gigantic tennis shoe, squirming babies, portable fold-up seats that never get used.

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