But while the movie business has defined the town since the birth of the "talkies, " the rest of Los Angeles deserves a second look.
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At the crucial moment, the walkie-talkies failed and Hunt was unable to warn the burglars when he saw police vehicles drive up to the Watergate building.
About 12 minders with walkie-talkies patrolled the area around his enclosure.
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Yet, other jurisdictions have chosen to move their emergency communication infrastructures and aging walkie-talkies into the Internet era with new "gateway" products manufactured by companies ranging from networking giant Cisco Systems to upstart, Birmingham, Mich.
Yet, other jurisdictions have chosen to move their emergency communication infrastructures and aging walkie-talkies into the Internet era with new "gateway" products manufactured by companies ranging from networking giant Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) to upstart, Birmingham, Mich.
George Valentin is a famous silent film star, but with the advent of sound and talkies, his career begins to fade.
While the Blu-ray won't have walkie-talkies, it will have two new bonus featurettes, one chronicling the day-to-day events of making the movie, the other a new interview with Spielberg reminiscing about the movie.
Brusque hosts and servers, armed with walkie-talkies, dart around the restaurant like referees.
In that movie, Comden and Green mined comic gold out of the transition from silent film to talkies in Hollywood.
Cables plugged into headset jacks on walkie-talkies and phones bridge the devices into the Codespear system, through which public safety officers can communicate with each other.
Small commercial chargers used for walkie-talkies, barcode scanners and the like must meet energy efficiency standards by Jan. 1, 2017.
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But not just walkie-talkies: Motorola Solutions is betting on the growth of ubiquitous broadband but without the consumer focus of Motorola Mobility.
"These men are carrying walkie talkies and blocking all entrances" to the village.
As you'll see in the trailer for the 30th-anniversary Blu-ray edition of the film, out this October, those walkie-talkies are no more.
Talkies were another 1920s development, but not until the following decade did newsreels begin to shape political perceptions.
But so inept was Hassoun, he bought a backpack, walkie-talkies and some batteries agents asked him to buy and the FBI then incorporated it into the dud bomb fashioned at its lab in Quantico, Va.
In Royal Chitwan National Park, near Nepal's south-western border with India, dozens of elephants were tramping through the thick jungle, their riders carrying rifles and chattering on walkie-talkies.
The crowd outside is well-organised, by men with walkie-talkies.
In Senate office buildings, walkie-talkies distributed a few years ago and perched on office walls broadcast the security alerts.
Any child who has played with walkie-talkies knows that conversations on two-way radios don't resemble the kind we have on mobile phones.
's face a CG makeover, added back in a couple deleted scenes, and -- most controversially -- switched out the rifles held by police officers chasing down Elliott and his bicycle buddies with walkie-talkies.
Meanwhile, in the two under-river tubes that cross between Exchange Place and the World Trade Center, PATH workers have jury-rigged a system of walkie-talkies and train-spotting staffers to get service there running at all.
And perhaps equally as important is the price, which many estimate is a mere fraction of the cost of building new radio networks from scratch and equipping all officials with new walkie-talkies.
What the FSA seems to lack in guns and bullets, it plainly makes up for in walkie-talkies.
The tricked-out, Wi-Fi-enabled phones work as inventory trackers, walkie-talkies and cash registers.
Walkie-talkies crackled, a police helicopter hovered overhead and acres of day-glo clothing were apparent on the guards monitoring the perimeter.
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