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Silent-film actors emphasized body language and facial expression so that the audience could better understand what an actor was feeling and portraying on screen. Much silent film acting is apt to strike modern-day audiences as simplistic or campy. The melodramatic acting style was in some cases a habit actors transferred from their former ...
It (stylized in quotation marks) is a 1927 American silent film directed by Clarence G. Badger, [a] and starring Clara Bow. It is based on the serialised novella of the same name, [ 4 ] republished in "It" and Other Stories (1927), [ 5 ] by Elinor Glyn , who adapted the story and appears in the film as herself.
The Birth of a Nation (full film) The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods and produced the film with Harry Aitken.
Thames Silents is a series of releases (theatrical, broadcast and home video) of films from the silent era produced by the British ITV contractor Thames Television. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill were the two main people involved in the project.
The Wind (1928) by Victor Sjöström. The Wind is a 1928 American synchronized sound romantic drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands of pieces and ...
Silent war films (4 C, 88 P) Silent Western (genre) films (6 C, 5 P) This page was last edited on 10 December 2022, at 04:49 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang [4] [5] from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm.