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Silent
see all genres ›The silent era stretches from cinema's beginnings in the late 1800s through the late-1920s in the U.S. (and into the mid-1930s in Japan) when sound became the industry standard. Silent films are often distinguished for their visual sophistication. Really, a silent film can be made in any era: a silent film is merely one made without synchronized dialogue. Several filmmakers continue to produce silent films to better focus attention on the visual components of cinema.
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SUB-GENRES · Silent Action/Adventure · Silent Comedy · Silent Crime · Silent Documentary · Silent Drama · Silent Fantasy · Silent Horror · Silent Science Fiction · Silent War · Silent Western
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The Love Nest
Buster Keaton's final silent short before moving into features, THE LOVE NEST takes to the high seas for slapstick verging on tragedy. Buster leaves on a seasick voyage after being spurned by his usual leading lady, Virginia Fox. He soon finds himself aboard a whaling ship working for a tyrannical skipper who thinks nothing...Start your free trial to watch
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The Love of Jeanne Ney
A major rediscovery of silent cinema, G. W. Pabst's THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY is presented here in the longest version available anywhere and accompanied by a full orchestral score by Timothy Brock. The film tells the story of a young Frenchwoman's struggle for happiness amid the turbulence of post-World War...Start your free trial to watch
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The Lucky Holdup
"Two old businessmen quarrel over a deal, and when it is learned that their respective son and daughter are in love, there is strenuous objection on their part. The young couple elopes to the West, and here is held up. The stage drivers are much disgusted to find they have no money. - New York Dramatic...Start your free trial to watch
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Mabel at the Wheel
Charles Chaplin, costumed in top hat, frock coat and sporting a goatee, was impersonating the "Dutch" screen character of Ford Sterling, the former Keystone comedian whom Chaplin was hired to replace. The comedy, the first two-reeler in which he appeared, incorporates footage taken at the Vanderbilt Cup...Start your free trial to watch
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Mabel's Busy Day
Mabel (Mabel Normand) is a hot dog vendor who, like a shabby scoundrel (Charles Chaplin), has to trick her way into entry at the racetrack. Chaplin wears his usual moustache and big boots but sports a light-colored derby and frock coats as a comic villain. Charlie pesters several women while Mabel has...Start your free trial to watch
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Mabel's Married Life
Mabel (Mabel Normand) and her husband (Charles Chaplin) visit a park where she is subjected to the unwanted flirtations of a cad (Mack Swain). Charlie's unsuccessful efforts to stop the cad later inspire Mabel to buy a boxing dummy in the hopes that the dummy will make a man out of her ineffectual spouse.Start your free trial to watch
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Mabel's Strange Predicament
Charles Chaplin's character is described as "a drunken masher." In his very first scene, Chaplin was savvy enough to create so much comic material that it would be difficult to cut in editing. MABEL'S STRANGE PREDICAMENT is the first of several Keystone comedies in which Chaplin reprises in some form the...Start your free trial to watch
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Madam Blanche, Beauty Doctor
A good example of the clever light comedy Thanhouser produced for its Falstaff label, while other studios cranked out broad slapstick comedies. Harry Benham and Mignon Anderson were versatile and popular Thanhouser stars, here showing considerable skill in light comedy, a genre that invites plenty of...Start your free trial to watch
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Making a Living
In his first comedy, Charles Chaplin has not yet adopted his famous character or costume. The character in MAKING A LIVING is a dubious dandy who aspires to be a newspaper reporter. He sports a top hat, frock coat, monocle and drooping moustache. Director Henry Lehrman (who plays the rival) cut Chaplin's best comedy bits.Start your free trial to watch
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Making an American Citizen
Pioneering director Alice Guy-Blanché produced this short only a few years after she herself immigrated to the United States from France. Gender relations are at the center of her fable of assimilation. A Russian couple come off the boat in native dress and, with the Statue of Liberty still in sight, the...Start your free trial to watch
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A Man About Town
Stan Laurel’s clueless man-about-town follows an attractive woman making his same streetcar transfer. She ends up taking the scenic route, breaking off for several errands along the way. The pursuit is duplicated when Laurel attracts the attention of a store detective (James Finlayson) and the dreamlike...Start your free trial to watch
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The Man from Beyond
Two scientists on an Arctic expedition uncover a frozen man who’s been preserved in ice for a century. The "man from beyond" is none other than Harry Houdini, who punches up a gothic melodrama with escape acts and a dashing rescue above Niagara Falls. His character encounters the same woman he left behind...Start your free trial to watch
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A Man There Was
Based on an epic poem by Henrik Ibsen, A MAN THERE WAS is commonly cited as the film that launched Sweden's first golden age of filmmaking. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it tells the story of a fisherman so desperate to obtain food for his starving family that he tries to break through a British blockade, only to find...Start your free trial to watch