silent film
Also known as silent movie, silent
film with no synchronized recorded dialogue
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Silent film refers to movies made without synchronized recorded dialogue, relying instead on visual storytelling, text cards, and musical accompaniment. These films, which dominated cinema from its inception until the late 1920s, established the fundamental techniques of filmmaking and remain important examples of how narrative and emotion can be conveyed purely through images and performance.
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A still from 1921's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of the highest-grossing silent films 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 intertitles.