October 6th

On this day - 6th of October 1927 - The first "talkies" movie was released 

The Jazz Singer was the first full feature movie where sound was synchronised with the movie. Up until then all full feature movies where silent and it marked the start of the end of the silent movies. The movie used the Vitaphone soundsystem that stored the sound separate from the movie. The sound was stored on phonograph records. Vitaphone was used in movies up until the 1960s. Some of the critics saw the potential in the new technology while others also remarked that the dialog was not as lifelike as real life. All in all the movies received mostly good reviews