The idea of combining motion pictures with sound has been in place since the invention of cinema itself. Before the 1930’s when “talking pictures” were introduced, movies were completely silent. Some silent films, however, were accompanied by full orchestras, or single instruments. The primary steps of global sound cinema were introduced in mid to late 1920’s. “Talking pictures” or “talkies” were sound films that included synchronized dialog, usually made with the Vitaphone, a popular sound-on-disc technology. Sound-on-disc worked by playing a separate record on a turntable that was synchronized to the film by controlling the speed of the projector. “Talkies” became a global phenomenon by the early 1930’s, however were soon replaced by more