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A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound. Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of inter-title cards.
1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood".
The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.
Kevin Brownlow is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. He is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era, having become interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent documenting and restoring film. Brownlow has rescued many silent films and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of early mass-entertainment cinema. He received an Academy Honorary Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 13 November 2010. This was the first occasion on which an Academy Honorary Award was given to a film preservationist.
Mildred Harris was an American stage, film, and vaudeville actress during the early part of the 20th century. Harris began her career in the film industry as a child actress when she was age 10. She was also the first wife of Charlie Chaplin.
Blue Streak McCoy is a lost 1920 American silent Western film starring Harry Carey.
The Terror is a 1928 American pre-Code horror film written by Harvey Gates and directed by Roy Del Ruth, based on the 1927 play of the same name by Edgar Wallace. It was the second "all-talking" motion picture released by Warner Bros., following Lights of New York. It was also the first all-talking horror film, made using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system.
Rogues and Romance is a surviving 1920 American silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz. The film was a feature-length version of the serial Pirate Gold, also directed by Seitz, and was shot in Europe. The film survives incomplete in the Library of Congress collection and George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.
Desert Gold is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by George B. Seitz. According to silentera.com the film survives while Arne Andersen Lost Film Files has it as a lost film. Portions of the film were shot near Palm Springs, California. It is based on the 1913 novel of the same name by Zane Grey.
Pals in Paradise is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz. The film was shot in Europe.
Great Mail Robbery is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz. This film survives in the Library of Congress collection incomplete.
The Warning is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz. A surviving print of the film is at George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.
After the Storm is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz. A print of the film exists at the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique.
Ransom is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz and is considered to be lost. This is one of the many films of this period that sought to cash in on the fame of the then-popular Sax Rohmer Fu Manchu novels. Surprisingly, Columbia resorted to aping the character instead of attempting to secure the rights legally from the author. The following year, Paramount released the first of a Fu Manchu trilogy of films that were very successful.
The Circus Kid is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by George B. Seitz. Although it was a silent film, it contained some talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects. A print of the film exists.
Frank Leigh was a British stage and film actor.
His Captive Woman is a 1929 American part-talking drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Milton Sills and Dorothy Mackaill. This film is "based on the short story "Changeling" by Donn Byrne in Changeling and Other Stories ." It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures which was already a subsidiary of the Warner Brothers studios. The Vitaphone sound system was also a subsidiary of Warners. Both Mackaill and Sills as well as director Fitzmaurice had worked together on the previous year's The Barker.
Howard Truesdale was an American stage actor and a film actor in both the silent and sound eras. He appeared in the films A Corner in Cotton, The Purple Lady, The Pretenders, Bolshevism on Trial, What Women Want, French Heels, No Trespassing, Out of Luck, Ashes of Vengeance, Ride for Your Life, Why Men Leave Home, The Night Message, The Foolish Virgin, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River, Go West, The Combat, Fighting with Buffalo Bill, The Jazz Girl, The Stolen Ranch, The Denver Dude, Singed, The Tigress, Burning Daylight, A Trick of Hearts, Three-Ring Marriage, The Lawless Legion and The Long Long Trail, among others.
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- ↑ Hal Erickson (2012). "NY Times: The Tigress". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
- ↑ "Silent Era: The Tigress". Silent Era. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
- ↑ "The Tigress [motion picture]". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved October 11, 2023.
