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  • Vitaphone and Movietone Opens at the State Theater
    Merely two years after the release of The Jazz Singer, the second successful talking picture, films with sound, or “talkies”, arrived at Pawhuska’s very own State Theater. An advertisement sponsored by Western Electric Company appeared in The Daily Journal Capital on March 10, 1929, welcoming the new technology to the theater announcing “our screen now sings and talks.”