silent film era
Intertitle cinema age
The silent film era is the period of cinema before synchronized sound became standard, roughly from the 1890s through the late 1920s.
Films relied on visual storytelling, title cards for dialogue, and live musical accompaniment.
The era ended with talkies like *The Jazz Singer* (1927): Chaplin was the biggest star of the silent film era.
- intertitlesText frames in silent films
- slapstickExaggerated physical humor
- comedyWork meant to amuse
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
- kinetoscopeEarly motion picture viewer
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