Silent film

A silent film is a film with no accompanying, synchronized recorded spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the motion picture itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, most films were silent before the late 1920s.

Literature

• Kevin Brownlow Behind the Mask of Innocence ISBN 0-394-57747-7
• A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (Camera Obscura Book), edited by

Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra, Duke University Press 2002, ISBN 0822329999

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