silent film

English

Noun

silent film (countable and uncountable, plural silent films)

  2. (cinematography, retronym) A film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue.
    Synonyms: silent picture, photoplay
    • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
      Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.
    • 2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104:
      Lewis Stone as the Marquis gives one of the greatest performances in silent film I have ever seen.

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