At the Flicks: The Talkies'

This article is a review of At the Flicks: The Talkies. For the television generations of today who find it hard to imagine watching black-and-white television and cannot picture what life was like before the box, the National Film and Sound Archive has the first of its series At the Flicks. A video package, with study guide on electronic disc, it recreates an evening session at the movies during the 1930s, the days of the 'talkies'.