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  • Cabinet of Dr Caligari

    Cabinet of Dr Caligari
    Was the first silent horror film. Many people actually enjoyed watching the film. The granddaddy of all horror films. The films reality has been recreated from strokes of a madman's pen. It was represented as a puppet humans controlled by a sadistic madman.
  • The Kid

    The Kid
    A silent masterpiece about a little tramp who discovers a little orphan and brings him up but is left desolate when the orphanage reclaims him. Chaplin directed, produced and starred in the film, as well as composed the score.
  • Golden age of horror

    Golden age of horror
    Was the second that was introduced into the film making world. After filming with no sound, the audience began to get bored. With watching films with no sound at all. The GOH had involved monsters in the movies to keep the audience attention like Frankenstein.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    The Hunchback film was the longest silent film in the know 1920's. This particular movie is still being watched till this day, because it was so pleasing to others.
  • SHERLOCK, JR.

    SHERLOCK, JR.
    Sherlock, Jr. (1924) was the third feature-length film Buster Keaton made as an independent after switching to the longer format following a series of brilliant 2-reelers in the early 1920s.
  • Nickelodeon

    Nickelodeon
    In 1925, Nickelodeon theaters were attracting 26 million viewers/kids per week/ five years. Later that number doubled big profits.
  • Buster Keaton ( The General )

    Buster Keaton ( The General )
    One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War.
  • The Jazz Singer/ First sound

    The Jazz Singer/ First sound
    First movie in 1920 that had sound. This was when everything changed in the film making world.A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology.
  • The Crowd

    The Crowd
    King Vidor's was considered the greatest directional achievement. It was almost impossible to identify the greatest artistic achievement of all silent films. The Crowd was one of the first films to be selected for preservation in the Library of Congress Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant
  • Blackmail

    Blackmail
    Blackmail is noted for its creative use of sound, although perhaps it was circumstance more than anything else which encouraged Hitchcock to be experimental. The production was begun as a silent, but Hitch suspected it would later be upgraded to a talkie, so he began by shooting around the dialogue scenes, and shot a few with the actors backs to the camera so their voices could be dubbed in later.
  • Warner Bros.

    Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros. is an American entertainment company that is a division of Time Warner and is headquarter in Burbank, California.
  • Dracula

    Dracula
    Dracula is a Universal Horror film from 1931, which made Bela Lugosi famous as the Classical Movie Vampire. His portrayal of Dracula is the one that most people think of when they hear the character's name (or even just the word "vampire"), whether or not they've actually seen the movie.