A picture that offered recorded music but no talking was said to be ‘With Sound’. If it additionally had some sound effects, it was said to be ‘With Sound and Effects’. If it had any recorded speech at all, it was a ‘Talking Picture’. If it was a proper movie, with a full range of speech and sounds, it was an ‘All-Talking Picture’. The first true all-talking picture was The Lights of New York in 1928, but such was the sound quality still that it came with subtitles as well.
