Shooting 1928 A1 Thompson with 50 round Drum Magazine. The A1 had a fast rate up to 1500 but the US army got Thompson to redesign and slow it down to 800/900 rpm. The A1 takes drum and stick magazine, even a 100 round which is nearly impossible to hold up due to the weight. A 3 second burst in a A1 was nearly 1 1/2 lb lead The first influx of Thompsons where a moral booster by Churchill just after Dunkirk but the cost was too much the lent and lease came in 1942 and until the sten was manufactur

The Silent Films Era The term silent film is a retronym—a term created to retroactively distinguish something from later developments. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were variously referred to as the "talkies", "sound films", or "talking pictures". The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is older than film (it was suggested almost immediately after Edison introduced the phonograph in 1877), and some early experiments had the projectionist manually adj