Lights of New York (1928)

In July 1928, Bryan Foy’s Lights of New York was released by Warner Brothers. It is remembered as the first “all talking” feature film, although critics at the time panned it. The New Yorker, for instance, said that “it would have been better silent, and much better unseen” (Oliver Claxton. “The Current Cinema,” The New Yorker, July 14, 1928, 69).