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BFI / Sight and SoundUK

Scotland’s rival to The Jazz Singer: the story behind a groundbreaking British sound film

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One hundred years after its Edinburgh cinema release, we tell the story behind Till the Bells Ring, a Scottish talking picture that included synchronised dialogue a full year before Hollywood’s own…

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