lights of new york was the first all talking feature film. there had been and of course and the jazz singer and released in oct. 1927 as the first feature film incorporating synchronized dialog. however and this film released in july 1928 is virtually unremembered for its place in film history. it had started out as a short and but gradually more was tacked on until  clocking in at 58 minutes  it accidentally became the first all talking feature film. it opened to a grind house run and to warner bros. surprise and made over a million dollars. that was good money back in 1928. the plot is quite simple. two country barbers naively buy into a barber shop on broadway that fronts as a speak easy for the hawk and a gangster. when they learn the truth they can not afford to get out and because the younger barber and eddie and has all of his mother money tied up in the place. kitty is the younger barber girlfriend and and gangster hawk (wheeler oakman) has an eye for turning in his older girlfriend (gladys brockwell) for a newer model  chorus girl kitty(helene costello). a cop is killed while trying to stop the hawk men from unloading a shipment of bootleg liquor and and the hawk sees it as an opportunity to frame eddie and thus getting kitty for himself. this early talkie is loads of fun for the enthusiast of these pioneering works. sure and the plot is elementary and the dialog stilted and but there is something you do not see much of in early talkies  background musical scoring. vitaphone had originally been used for this very purpose and and here they are still using it for musical accompaniment along with the dialog. and there are singing and dancing numbers. the scenes in hawk nightclub are used as an opportunity to show off what films could never do before  musical numbers. there is even a wild eyed emcee with some heavy makeup left over from the silent era that is a hoot to watch. vitaphone could not go outdoors at this point due to the static camera booths and so the scene in the park between the two lovers eddie and kitty is simulated  and cheaply. the greenery looks like something out of an ed wood movie or perhaps a high school production of our town. gladys brockwell and as the hawk castoff girlfriend and delivers her lines with punch. she a real trooper considering what lines she has to deliver. to the hawk  so you think you can have any chicken you want and throw me back in the deck. huh. mixed metaphors anyone. and then there are her final lines i have lived and and i have loved and and i have lost. did someone get paid to write this dialog. brockwell was making a good success of her talkie career after scoring some triumphs in silent films (the evil sister in seventh heaven) and when a fatal car accident cut her career short. then there is eugene palette  the older of the two barbers in our story. his frog voice and natural delivery of lines and and cuddly appearance gave him a long career as a character actor usually appearing as a put upon family man or businessman with a gruff exterior and heart of gold. in fact and mr. palette is the only member of this cast who still has a notable career in films just three years after this movie is released. finally there is the question of where is that microphone hidden. microphones were still stationary at this point and and it fun to figure out where they have hidden it. there is one famous scene and though and where everybody can pretty much figure it out. hawk is in his office talking to his two henchman  who seem to comprehend as slowly as they talk  about taking eddie for a ride. if you watch this scene you would swear the phone on the desk is a character in this film. it front and center during the whole conversation. the microphone is likely planted in the phone. there is something heroic about these pioneers flying blind in the face of the new technology of sound. you have silent actors who are accustomed to using pantomime for expression and vaudevillians who know how to play to a live audience but do not know how to make the same impression on a vitaphone camera booth and and you have dialog writers either trying to write conversation as compactly as they did title cards or filling up films with endless chatter. check this one out. it is not boring and moves fast and and is loads of fun if you know what to look for. and no and i do not expect this one to ever be out on blu ray and but i hope that the folks at warner brothers add it to the warner archive soon so everyone can see it. 
lights of new york was the first all talking feature film. there had been and of course and the jazz singer and released in oct. 1927 as the first feature film incorporating synchronized dialog. however and this film released in july 1928 is virtually unremembered for its place in film history. it had started out as a short and but gradually more was tacked on until  clocking in at 58 minutes  it accidentally became the first all talking feature film. it opened to a grind house run and to warner bros. surprise and made over a million dollars. that was good money back in 1928. the plot is quite simple. two country barbers naively buy into a barber shop on broadway that fronts as a speak easy for the hawk and a gangster. when they learn the truth they can not afford to get out and because the younger barber and eddie and has all of his mother money tied up in the place. kitty is the younger barber girlfriend and and gangster hawk (wheeler oakman) has an eye for turning in his older girlfriend (gladys brockwell) for a newer model  chorus girl kitty(helene costello). a cop is killed while trying to stop the hawk men from unloading a shipment of bootleg liquor and and the hawk sees it as an opportunity to frame eddie and thus getting kitty for himself. this early talkie is loads of fun for the enthusiast of these pioneering works. sure and the plot is elementary and the dialog stilted and but there is something you do not see much of in early talkies  background musical scoring. vitaphone had originally been used for this very purpose and and here they are still using it for musical accompaniment along with the dialog. and there are singing and dancing numbers. the scenes in hawk nightclub are used as an opportunity to show off what films could never do before  musical numbers. there is even a wild eyed emcee with some heavy makeup left over from the silent era that is a hoot to watch. vitaphone could not go outdoors at this point due to the static camera booths and so the scene in the park between the two lovers eddie and kitty is simulated  and cheaply. the greenery looks like something out of an ed wood movie or perhaps a high school production of our town. gladys brockwell and as the hawk castoff girlfriend and delivers her lines with punch. she a real trooper considering what lines she has to deliver. to the hawk  so you think you can have any chicken you want and throw me back in the deck. huh. mixed metaphors anyone. and then there are her final lines i have lived and and i have loved and and i have lost. did someone get paid to write this dialog. brockwell was making a good success of her talkie career after scoring some triumphs in silent films (the evil sister in seventh heaven) and when a fatal car accident cut her career short. then there is eugene palette  the older of the two barbers in our story. his frog voice and natural delivery of lines and and cuddly appearance gave him a long career as a character actor usually appearing as a put upon family man or businessman with a gruff exterior and heart of gold. in fact and mr. palette is the only member of this cast who still has a notable career in films just three years after this movie is released. finally there is the question of where is that microphone hidden. microphones were still stationary at this point and and it fun to figure out where they have hidden it. there is one famous scene and though and where everybody can pretty much figure it out. hawk is in his office talking to his two henchman  who seem to comprehend as slowly as they talk  about taking eddie for a ride. if you watch this scene you would swear the phone on the desk is a character in this film. it front and center during the whole conversation. the microphone is likely planted in the phone. there is something heroic about these pioneers flying blind in the face of the new technology of sound. you have silent actors who are accustomed to using pantomime for expression and vaudevillians who know how to play to a live audience but do not know how to make the same impression on a vitaphone camera booth and and you have dialog writers either trying to write conversation as compactly as they did title cards or filling up films with endless chatter. check this one out. it is not boring and moves fast and and is loads of fun if you know what to look for. and no and i do not expect this one to ever be out on blu ray and but i hope that the folks at warner brothers add it to the warner archive soon so everyone can see it. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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