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Why is it important?
It focuses on the attempts of the Musicians' Union to keep its members in work during the years of transition between live and pre-recorded sound in British cinemas between 1927 and 1933.
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This one of several articles and two books covering the advent of pre-recorded sound on film in Britain. The research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and undertaken by by a team drawn from De Montfort and Stirling Universities. Most of the team members have articles alongside this one in The Journal of British Film and Television 17. 2 (April 2020).
John Izod
University of Stirling
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This page is a summary of: When Squawkies Became Talkies: The Musicians' Union, Mechanical Music and British Cinemas, 1927–33, Journal of British Cinema and Television, April 2020, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/jbctv.2020.0519.
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