100 Silent Films (BFI Screen Guide)
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"100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant films. As Bryony Dixon contends, silent cinema is not a genre; it is the first 35 years of film history, a complex negotiation between art and commerce and a union of creativity and technology. At its most grand – on the big screen with a full orchestral accompaniment – it is magnificent, permitting a depth of emotional engagement rarely found in other fields of cinema. Silent film was hugely popular in its day, and its success enabled the development of large-scale film production in the United States and Europe. It was the start of our fascination with the moving image as a disseminator of information and as mass entertainment with its consequent celebrity culture."
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Les vampires
1915, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Three Must-Get-Theres
1922, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Perils of Pauline
1914, in 2 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 33 top lists Check -
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The Adventures of Dollie
1908, in 0 top lists Check
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