Silent film - Wikipedia
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of inter- title cards .
The end of an era: Hollywood’s final silent movie - Far Out …
2024年7月9日 · Silent films carried on fighting a losing battle after the era of the talkie had began, but it was only a matter of time before obsolescence came calling.
For The First Time (or the last time): 1935: Hollywood's last silent film
2008年11月25日 · The last silent film ever produced in Hollywood was released by Paramount International in 1935. Legong: Dance of the Virgins, was originally shown only outside the US due to concerns about female nudity in the film and the uproar it would cause. It was fiilmed in Bali, Indonesia. The movie is a tragic tale of love denied.
The Silence After Sound: Hollywood's Last Silent Movies
2009年2月8日 · How did filmmakers – actors, directors, writers, and all the other professionals that comprise a movie crew – respond to the silent screen’s last call? This is the foundational question of The Silence After Sound: Hollywood’s Last Silent Movies.
When was the last silent movie made for general distribution …
2024年3月27日 · The last silent feature film was The Poor Millionaire in 1930. Produced by Richard Talmadge (1892-1981), who also starred as both the hero and the villain, the story concerned a young millionaire whose life is turned upside down when his identical twin brother, an escaped convict, begins to impersonate him.
Cinema Scope: A Short History of the End of Silent Film
2011年12月15日 · Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel produced the seminal Un Chien Andalou in 1929 as a purposely silent film. And the Great Resistor of them all, Charlie Chaplin, made Modern Times in 1936 (!), the...
Modern Times | Silent Comedy, Factory Worker, Tramp | Britannica
Modern Times, American silent film, released in 1936, that starred Charlie Chaplin as a man at odds with modern technology. It is regarded as the last great silent film. The film, which was set during the Great Depression, centres on a luckless factory worker (played by …
The Kiss (1929) - Turner Classic Movies
Before Greta Garbo talked on screen, she gave her silent film career one last offering with the courtroom melodrama The Kiss (1929). Notable for being not only the last silent picture made by the legendary Garbo, The Kiss is also the last silent picture MGM ever made.
What was the last silent movie made? - Answers
2023年8月30日 · Silent films are still being made, so there is no "last silent film". However, if you are referring to the last commercially viable silent Hollywood film, then the last silent...
Top 50 Silent Films - Classic Clips
Silent films were already old-fashioned and out of vogue in 1936 when Charlie Chaplin completed his last silent feature film, Modern Times, almost ten years after the sound revolution began with The Jazz Singer.