2. They Talk! (Sep 1918 - Dec 1927)

One of the first feature length movies to employ sound
as a brand new tool in the cinematic armoury...

Films in this section are listed monthly according to the dates they were reviewed in Kine Weekly *. Adjustments have been made in those instances where so many films were being released at any one time, some reviews had to be held over for future issues. The Index restores those reviews to the month where they would have been reviewed if space had allowed them to be published when originally intended.

The vast majority of reviews during this period were published shortly after their first trade show screening, rather than the date of commercial release. A small number of titles which appear to have been missed by KW are listed according to the month of their release date.

* Films had been reviewed on a regular basis prior to September 1918, but they were scattered throughout individual issues, and many relevant titles were either relegated to footnote status, or not reviewed at all. By this particular month, the reviews were fully consolidated into a single section, with an emphasis on features and serials that would last from this point until the publication ended in 1971.