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The art of motion pictures grew into full maturity in the "silent era" (1894 in film – 1929 in film). The height of the silent era (from the early 1910s in film to the late 1920s) was a particularly fruitful period, full of artistic innovation.
The beginning of the sound era itself is ambiguously defined. To some, it began with The Jazz Singer, which was released in 1927, when the Interbellum Generation came of age and increased box-office profits for films as sound was introduced to feature films. [11] To others, the era began in 1929, when the silent age had definitively ended.
The most popular cartoon series during the silent era was Australian-American film producer Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat. Felix the Cat (Originally named Master Tom) first appeared in Feline Follies (1919) and became hugely successful throughout the 1920s. The studio later came into trouble during the advent of sound cartoons in the early 1930s ...
1896 – L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, one of the six more short films released by the Lumière brothers; Pathé-Frères is founded; Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle) is a French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès which depicts a pantomimed sketch in the style of a theatrical comic fantasy.
List of lost films; List of lost silent films (1910–1914) List of lost silent films (1915–1919) List of lost silent films (1920–1924) List of lost silent films (1925–1929) List of incomplete or partially lost films; List of lost or unfinished animated films; List of rediscovered films; List of rediscovered film footage
During the silent film era she became one of the first great celebrities of the cinema and a popular icon known to the public as "America's Sweetheart". [1] Pickford was born Gladys Marie Smith in Toronto and began acting on stage in 1900. She started her film career in the United States in 1909. [2]
Many films of the silent era have been lost. [1] The Library of Congress estimates 75% of all silent films are lost forever. About 10,919 American silent films were produced, but only 2,749 of them still exist in some complete form, either as an original American 35mm version, a foreign release, or as a lower-quality copy.
Sound film remakes of silent films (376 P) Silent film people (7 C, 14 P) M. ... Animation in the United States during the silent era; B. John Barnes (film historian)