... launched his career in England and he soon became the most successful and highest-paid director in England eventually directing six more feature length silent films. With each of these films, his natural talent grew more and more. As the film industry began introducing sound to the ... to progress with the times. In 1929, Hitchcock's Blackmail made history by becoming the first British "talkie." Although the film originally begun as a silent one, Hitchcock immediately re-shot certain portions of it after he learned of the ability of sound. In 1930, Hitchcock released two films, Juno, .....

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... launched his career in England and he soon became the most successful and highest-paid director in England eventually directing six more feature length silent films. With each of these films, his natural talent grew more and more. As the film industry began introducing sound to the ... to progress with the times. In 1929, Hitchcock's Blackmail made history by becoming the first British "talkie." Although the film originally begun as a silent one, Hitchcock immediately re-shot certain portions of it after he learned of the ability of sound. In 1930, Hitchcock released two films, Juno, .....

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... . They emerged to find Dresden replaced by one big, smoking mineral deposit. The four guards huddle together, and the changing expressions on their faces "silent mouths open in awe and terror "seem to Billy like a silent film of a barbershop quartet. Billy time-travels to Tralfamadore, where Montana Wildhack, who is six- months pregnant, asks him to tell her a story. He ... are still under German command, Edgar Derby is discovered with a teapot found in the ruins. He is arrested and convicted of plundering and executed by firing squad. Then it is spring, and the Germans disappear to figh...

• Word Count: 5323
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

... in a shallower shelter nearby. The POWs emerge at noon the next day into what looks like the surface of the moon. The guards gape at the destruction. They look like a silent film of a barbershop quartet. We move to the Trafalmadorian Zoo. Montana Wildhack asked Billy to tell her a story. He tells her about the burnt logs, actually corpses. He tells her ... he took from the ruins. He is tried and executed by a firing squad. Then the POWs were returned to the stable. The German soldiers went off to fight the Soviets. Spring comes, and one day in May the war is over. Billy and the other me...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School