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A Trip to the Moon a Sci-Fi Silent Film
In 1910, the Lumiere brothers began their film production company with a series of films that they called the “first films”. They were not the first films ever made, but they were the first films with a plot and characters. The first of…
603The Artist is a Masterpiece of Silent Film
A silent film is a movie that has no audible dialogue. Silent films were common in the early 1900s, before the invention of synchronized sound. The Artist is a silent film released in 2011. It’s a black-and-white drama centered on the final…
575Hooray for Harold Lloyd and Silent Film
Harold Clayton Lloyd was born on April 16, 1893, in Benington, England. He was the youngest of four children in a middle-class family. His parents were Thomas and Alice Lloyd. His father was an estate agent and his mother was a housewife. When…
622The Biggest Silent Film Star was Charlie Chaplin
As the 1910s came to a close, so did the era of silent films. Now that people understood how movies could tell stories without words, they no longer felt silence was necessary for the film. Instead, they preferred characters who spoke. And yet,…
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