silent movie
Chaplin's typical format
A silent movie is a film without synchronized recorded dialogue, relying instead on visual storytelling, title cards for dialogue or narration, and live or recorded musical accompaniment.
Silent films dominated cinema from its origins in the 1890s until sound technology emerged in the late 1920s: We watched a Buster Keaton silent movie.
Also called silent film.
- early cinemaMotion pictures' first decades
- title cardsOn-screen text displays
- melodramasSensationalized dramatic works
- exaggerated actingOverly theatrical performance style
- slapstick comedyHumor from physical mishaps
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