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A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, mime and title cards.
8 wrz 2024 · The silent era was when the camera angles and camera movements we expect from Hollywood today were invented. There was three-point lighting, close-ups, long shots, and even continuity editing. We saw stars like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Mary Pickford. ChaplinCredit: Criterion.
19 kwi 2024 · The challenge of visual storytelling without sound pushed filmmakers to find new ways to tell stories and communicate ideas. This list is an attempt to highlight the best silent films, not the...
22 paź 2024 · Spanning the medium's inception all the way to the late 1920s, the silent era revolutionized entertainment, produced several masterpieces, many of which are now lost, and launched the careers...
3 paź 2023 · The Ten Commandments (1923) Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille. While the first part of this film focuses on telling, the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, the primary part of this movie is the second part, which stars Richard Dix and Rod La Rocque as a son embodying the life of Moses and a contractor living a life a sin.
14 kwi 2018 · Every movie fan can use a primer on the earliest essentials of cinema. Well, you're in luck; here's the tl;dr version of the silent film era.
10 lis 2016 · Epic cinema was born in the silent era, when pioneering filmmakers dreamed big and recreated episodes from history and the Bible on a gargantuan scale. Lo and behold these 10 showstoppers. The recent re-release of Napoleon, Abel Gance’s awe-inspiring 1927 biopic, puts most other films in the shade.
