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Talkie Collection

Background imageTalkie Collection: Metropolitan Police walkie talkie radio

Metropolitan Police walkie talkie radio
A Metropolitan Police walkie talkie radio

Background imageTalkie Collection: Harold Lloyd in the film Safety Last 1923

Harold Lloyd in the film Safety Last 1923, famous vintage Hollywood movie image

Background imageTalkie Collection: Police on Walkie Talkie

Police on Walkie Talkie
Police officers talking on a walkie talkie in the street at Notting Hill Underground Station, London Metropolitan Police

Background imageTalkie Collection: Buster Keaton plays golf, silent film Three Ages 1923

Buster Keaton plays golf, silent film Three Ages 1923
Buster Keaton plays golf in the silent film Three Ages 1923

Background imageTalkie Collection: Police Officer in Radio

Police Officer in Radio
Police officer on walkie talkie in London. Metropolitan Police

Background imageTalkie Collection: Actor Charlie Chaplin on his return to the UK in 1931

Actor Charlie Chaplin on his return to the UK in 1931, see signing autographs

Background imageTalkie Collection: Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw Dominion Theatre 1931

Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw Dominion Theatre 1931
Charlie Chaplin meets George Bernard Shaw at the Dominion Theatre for the UK premiere of City Lights, February 27th 1931

Background imageTalkie Collection: Noble Sissle and his band members in the UK

Noble Sissle and his band members in the UK
Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 - December 17, 1975) was an African-American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921)

Background imageTalkie Collection: Film actor Charlie Chaplin from the 1920s

Film actor Charlie Chaplin from the 1920s
Studio portrait of film actor Charlie Chaplin from the 1920s

Background imageTalkie Collection: Three dancing scenes - one from a Universal Movie

Three dancing scenes - one from a Universal Movie
Three dancing scenes from 1929 - top from the Universal Pictures film Broadway with Glen Tryon (Universals first talking picture with technicolour sequences)

Background imageTalkie Collection: Two film photographs: top right an ensemble of

Two film photographs: top right an ensemble of 150 in the film revue titled The March of Time (MGM), 1930 and bottom left an ensemble from Hold Everything, a Warner Brothers talkie, 1930. Date: 1930

Background imageTalkie Collection: Two film photographs: top left an ensemble shot

Two film photographs: top left an ensemble shot
Two film photographs: top left ensemble shot from Gold Diggers of Broadway featuring Ann Pennigton and top right William Powell and Evelyn Brent in Interference, a Paramount talkie (1930). Date: 1930

Background imageTalkie Collection: POLICEMAN ON MOTORBIKE

POLICEMAN ON MOTORBIKE
A policeman on a motorcycle takes a call on his walkie- talkie and gets ready to respond to an emergency. Date: 1960s

Background imageTalkie Collection: BOBBY ON THE BEAT

BOBBY ON THE BEAT
A young policeman, on the beat in Oxford Circus, central London. Date: late 1960s

Background imageTalkie Collection: Met Police officer at Piccadilly Circus, London

Met Police officer at Piccadilly Circus, London
A Metropolitan Police officer on duty at Piccadilly Circus in Central London, speaking on his walkie talkie radio. There are neon advertisements for Coca Cola, Cinzano, Skol, Volkswagen

Background imageTalkie Collection: TELEPHONE TALKIE

TELEPHONE TALKIE
An engineer testing the latest telephones, due to be shown at the Physical Societys Annual exhibition of scientific instruments at Imperial College, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imageTalkie Collection: French scout using walkie talkie

French scout using walkie talkie
A French scout using a walkie talkie with an aerial

Background imageTalkie Collection: WW2 - Blitz, London - Progress report sent to Local Control

WW2 - Blitz, London - Progress report sent to Local Control
Senior Company Officer Jimmy Syrett, up with the branchmen, sends a progress report to Local Control. He is using one of the early walkie talkies with a throat, or larynx, microphone

Background imageTalkie Collection: WW2 - Blitz on London - Fire Force Commander taking charge

WW2 - Blitz on London - Fire Force Commander taking charge
WW2 - Blitz on London - Fire Force Commander C P McDuell takes charge at a major fire. Senior Company Officer Jimmy Syrett operates the walkie talkie set and Company Officer Obie Walker

Background imageTalkie Collection: Film, wireless and gramophone in the home by G. H. Davis

Film, wireless and gramophone in the home by G. H. Davis
Talkies a self-contained cinema, gramophone and radio-set for household use, mechanism of synchrophone. Date: 1931

Background imageTalkie Collection: Young boy posing in his Christmas Martian Space Outfit

Young boy posing in his Christmas Martian Space Outfit
Young boy posing in his Christmas " Martian Space Outfit", complete with walkie talkie radio. Date: early 1950s

Background imageTalkie Collection: LCC-LFB fire scene, Cluny Place, Bermondsey SE1

LCC-LFB fire scene, Cluny Place, Bermondsey SE1
Firefighters in action at a major fire in Cluny Place, Bermondsey, SE London, affecting adjacent warehouses. The fireman with a walkie-talkie is relaying messages between the senior officer

Background imageTalkie Collection: Met Police PC and WPC, suburban scene

Met Police PC and WPC, suburban scene
Two Metropolitan Police officers, a PC and a WPC, walking along a suburban pathway in a residential area of London. The woman has a large walkie talkie radio at her waist

Background imageTalkie Collection: Met Police officer on his radio, London

Met Police officer on his radio, London
A Metropolitan Police officer speaking on his radio in Trafalgar Square, Central London, with the church of St Martin in the Fields behind him. A WPC is speaking to a woman in the background. (2 of 2)

Background imageTalkie Collection: Police officer using a radio, London

Police officer using a radio, London
A Metropolitan Police officer using a small walkie talkie radio made by Motorola on a London street

Background imageTalkie Collection: Possible Bomb Threat

Possible Bomb Threat
Police officer on Westminster Bridge by Big Ben on the walkie talkie radio checking out a suspect package in a briefcase - suspect bag Metropolitan Police, London


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