true or false question

Question

By 1931, nearly 85 percent of America's twenty thousand theaters accommodated silent films (sound pictures).

Answer 1

Right, that's correct (if you use sound pictures instead of silent films in that statement). This was to accommodate the surge in film attendance that many audiences flocked to, to escape how the Great Depression was making them feel. But talkies came around to nearly eliminate sound-only pictures a few years later.