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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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Blood and Sand
An immortal icon of brooding sexuality, Rudolph Valentino became one of silent cinema's most enigmatic and entrancing performers. In BLOOD AND SAND he stars as Juan Gallardo, a young Spaniard who achieves his boyhood ambition to become a celebrated toreador. But with fame comes temptation and treachery and the triumphant Juan...Start your free trial to watch
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The Boat
THE BOAT, conceived as a companion piece to ONE WEEK, finds Buster Keaton building a thirty-five foot family cruiser. It was Keaton's most commercially successful silent two-reel comedy and ranks among his best works. The classic sequence of this boat launch has Buster (the proud owner and captain) standing at the nose of the...Start your free trial to watch
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Bout de Zan Steals an Elephant
Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he does indeed steal an elephant from a circus. However, an elephant is a bit more than one kid can handle. The elephant has ideas of its own and, soon enough, decides it can do anything a person can do. Perhaps even...Start your free trial to watch
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Broken Blossoms
Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient. But it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen! In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape her miserable...Start your free trial to watch
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Bromo and Juliet
Though introduced as a “successful young business man of rare judgment and great dignity,” Charley Chase’s diminutive gentleman is out of his league the moment his sweetheart says she’ll only marry him if he plays Romeo to her Juliet. The night of the play he’s squirming in his sponge-packed tights....Start your free trial to watch
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Bucking Broncho
Cowboy star Lee Martin rides the bronco "Sunfish" in a small corral built outside the Black Maria studio. Martin was a star for Buffalo Bill's Wild West, as was Frank Hammitt, who encourages his daring by firing a six-shooter. Neither joined William F. Cody (alias "Buffalo Bill") on his European sojourn.Start your free trial to watch
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Buffalo Dance
Sioux Indians from Buffalo Bill's Wild West dance in Thomas Edison's Black Maria motion picture studio. The Edison Manufacturing Company took numerous films of dancers from different nations and cultures. These could be shown in a bank of kinetoscopes, creating a miniature ethnographic museum.Start your free trial to watch
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Bumping Into Broadway
Harold Lloyd’s first "glass character" two-reeler, BUMPING INTO BROADWAY stars Lloyd and Bebe Daniels as theatrical hopefuls. He's a playwright; she's a chorus girl. The action is fierce as Harold attempts to save Bebe from a wicked society chap and gets into lots of trouble in the process. Look for Our...Start your free trial to watch
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The Burglar on the Roof
J. Stuart Blackton and Albert Smith emerged as important filmmakers and exhibitors in the spring and summer of 1898. When they were caught duping Thomas Edison's copyrighted war films, they seemed to have no choice but to become licensees and acknowledge Edison's patents. With audiences tiring of war...Start your free trial to watch
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The Burglars
Alice Guy's brief THE BURGLARS takes a classic cops-and-robbers set-up and places it upon the roofs of Paris circa late-1800s (albeit a Méliès-like set that approximates the city skyline). Second-story men have considerable difficulties once the French police get involved!Start your free trial to watch
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Burlesque Suicide
Facial expression films continued to be popular in the early 1900s. In one, a man contemplates suicide but takes a drink instead. In a second version, presented here, BURLESQUE SUICIDE NO.2, the same man threatens suicide and then points his finger at the camera (and the audience) and laughs.Start your free trial to watch
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The Burning of Durland's Riding Academy
Fires reported on the front page of New York newspapers routinely brought filmmakers to the scene. Such films were popular in vaudeville houses and fulfilled the cinema's mandate as a "visual newspaper." The fire at Durland's Riding Academy, on Manhattan's west side, between Sixty-first and Sixty-second...Start your free trial to watch
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The Burning Stable
In the fall of 1896, the Edison Company was busy making their own versions of other company's hits. Since Biograph films were shot on a different (68mm) format, their pictures could not be shown on regular 35mm projectors, providing Edison with an attractive commercial opportunity. THE BURNING STABLE...Start your free trial to watch
