So now there was a real possibility of having films of more than two or three minutes, and this led to the making of The Great Train Robbery - the very first movie made.

这样使得电影的时间长度多于两三分钟成为了真正的可能，而且这也产生了真正的第一部电影“火车大劫案”。

It only lasted 11 minutes but was an absolute sensation, and there were cases of people watching the movie and actually fainting when the character fired a gun at the camera!

虽然电影只持续了11分钟，但却是绝对的视觉冲击，当时还出现了些情况，电影中主角朝摄像机开枪的时候真的有观众晕倒过去！

Almost overnight movies became a craze, and by 1905 people in America were lining up to see movies in 'store theatres', as they were called then.

几乎一夜之间电影变成了人们狂热的追求，在1905年的美国，人们排着长队来这个被他们称作“商场剧院”的地方观看电影。

I guess the next big step in terms of development of technology was to have people actually talking on the film, and the first step towards this was in 1926 when sound effects were first used on a film.

我认为之后电影技术发展的一大步是能够让电影中的人真正的说话，而达到这个效果的前一步是在1926年时声音效果第一次使用在电影当中。

It wasn't until the following year however that the first 'talkie', as they were called then, was made.

后来直到第二年，第一部被称作“有声电影”才被制作出来。

This film featured actors speaking only during parts of the film and was called The Jazz Singer, and it wasn't until 1928 that the first all-talking film was produced, and this was called The Lights of New York.

这部叫做“爵士歌手”的电影其特点是其中一些部分是有声音的，然后直到1928年才制作出第一部完整的有声电影，叫做“纽约之光”。

Unfortunately, the sound on this early film was not very good and I believe they put subtitles on the film - that is, they printed the dialogue along the bottom of the film to compensate for this poor sound quality.

美中不足的是，这些早期电影的声音效果不是特别好，而且我觉得他们应该是在电影中加了字幕——也就是在电影屏幕底部加印对话内容，用来补偿电影本身的音效不足。

Now, with the addition of sound, moving pictures became far more difficult to make...

下面，对于音效方面的补充，使得早期电影变的更加难制作了……