Most of Nadada's scenes were without music as it was said that there was no need to heighten the already-present emotion.
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A Daughter of Eve is a 1919 British silent crime film directed by Walter West and starring Violet Hopson, Stewart Rome and Cameron Carr.
A Knight in London (German: Eine Nacht in London) is a 1929 British-German silent drama film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Lilian Harvey, Ivy Duke and Robin Irvine.
Around the Boree Log is a 1925 Australian silent film adapted from the poems of "John O'Brien" (Patrick Joseph Hartigan).
Seen in many classic offerings such as Trilby (1923), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927), The Cat and the Canary (1927), Doctor X (1932), and Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), Carewe completed nearly 50 films, mostly during the silent film era.
Bigamie (English: Bigamy) is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Heinrich George, Maria Jacobini and Anita Dorris.
Bobby Bumps was the titular character of a series of silent animated short subjects produced by Bray Productions from 1915-25.
Comedy of the Heart (German:Komödie des Herzens) is a 1924 German silent romance film directed by Rochus Gliese and starring Lil Dagover, Nigel Barrie and Alexander Murski.
Ethel Hall (1898 - 1927) was an American silent film actress who died at the age of 29 on June 29, 1927 when her boat capsized in the rapids of the Merced River near the town of Merced in the San Joaquin Valley.
Forbidden Cargoes is a 1925 British silent adventure film directed by Fred LeRoy Granville and starring Peggy Hyland, Clifford McLaglen and James Lindsay.
Forrest Taylor (December 29, 1883 – February 19, 1965) was an American character actor whose artistic career spanned six different decades, from silents through talkies to the advent of color.
His western novel Whispering Smith – the title character of which was modeled on real-life Union Pacific Railroad detectives Timothy Keliher and Joe Lefors (though the name of the titular hero was apparently derived from another UPRR policeman, James L. "Whispering" Smith) – was made into a movie on eight separate occasions, four silent films in 1916, 1917, 1926, and 1927, with later versions in 1930, 1935, 1948 and 1952.
Fred Ott's Sneeze (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze) is an 1894 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film shot by William K.L. Dickson and starring Fred Ott.
Gladys Hulette (July 21, 1896 – August 8, 1991) was a silent film actress from Arcade, New York.
Meins first became notable as the director of a number of silent short subjects film series, including the Buster Brown comedies of the 1920s.
Jim Cowrey is Dead (German:Jim Corwey ist tot) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Edmond Gottschalk Stratton and starring Hedda Vernon, Otto Flint and Loo Hardy.
Formerly a silent film actor, Sorrow was forced into retirement by the new "talkies," and turned to a life of crime.
In 2004, a silent film about Kannapolis, showing the everyday behavior of ordinary people, which was made in 1941 by itinerant filmmaker H. Lee Waters, was selected by the Library of Congress for listing in the United States National Film Registry, as a representative of this kind of filmed "town portrait" popular in the 1930s and 1940s.
Inspired by Mack Sennett's slapstick Keystone Cops series of silent films, the object of the game is for Officer Keystone Kelly (the user) to catch Harry Hooligan before he can escape from the department store.
She was born Lisa Orszag, and is the granddaughter of child actor and screenwriter True Boardman, and the great-granddaughter of silent film actors True Boardman and Virginia True Boardman.
Madame de La Pommeraye's Intrigues (German: Die Intrigen der Madame de La Pommeraye) is a 1922 German silent film directed by Fritz Wendhausen and starring Olga Gsowskaja, Margarete Schlegel and Grete Berger.
María Corda (born Mária Antónia Farkas on 4 May 1898 in Déva, Hungary, died 15 February 1976 in Thônex, Switzerland) was a Hungarian actress and a star of the silent film era in Germany and Austria.
Marriage in Trouble (German:Ehe in Not) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Elga Brink, Walter Rilla and Evelyn Holt.
Mist in the Valley is a 1923 British silent crime film directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, G.H. Mulcaster and James Carew.
Pacific Title & Art Studio is an American company founded in 1919 by Leon Schlesinger, where most of his business was producing title cards for silent films.
He made his motion picture debut in 1921 in a secondary but good role in the Goldwyn Pictures silent film comedy Pardon My French directed by Sidney Olcott.
It is named for silent film star Thomas Meighan and opened as the Meighan Theatre on July 1, 1926 with a screening of Meighan's movie The New Klondike.
Born William Grant Blandin in Riceville, Iowa, he worked and acted in live theatre for a number of years until 1911 when he turned to acting, writing and directing silent films for Philadelphia-based Lubin Studios.
The book consists of thirteen pieces on various subjects, including writers H. P. Lovecraft (two essays), Robert E. Howard (also two essays), and Edgar Rice Burroughs, actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., silent movies, pseudohistory, pseudobibliographica, barbarians real and fictional, the Scopes Trial, the ancient tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse, and the author himself.
Shree Pundalik, which was released on 18 May 1912 at the Coronation Cinematograph, Girgaum, Mumbai, is one of the candidates for the first Indian film (silent film).
Somebody's Darling is a 1925 British silent comedy film directed by George A. Cooper and starring Betty Balfour, Rex O'Malley and Fred Raynham.
The silent film With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre (1927) was loosely based on these events; in fact, Sitting Bull had nothing to do with the attacks.
The Convicted (German: Die Vorbestraften) is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Margarete Schlegel and Albert Steinrück.
The Fortune of Christina McNab is a 1921 British silent comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino and starring Nora Swinburne, David Hawthorne and Francis Lister.
The Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant is a 1927 British silent action film directed by W.P. Kellino and starring Henry Edwards, Isabel Jeans and Lilian Oldland.
The Girl with the Whip (German:Das Mädel mit der Peitsche) is a 1929 German silent comedy film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Anny Ondra, Werner Fuetterer and Sig Arno.
The Gypsy Chief (German:Der Zigeunerprimas) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Carl Wilhelm and starring Paul Heidemann, Margarete Schlegel and Fritz Schulz.
The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928) is an American short silent experimental film.
The Life Story of David Lloyd George is a 1918 British silent biopic film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Norman Page, Alma Reville and Ernest Thesiger.
The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore (German: Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena and Kitty Moran.
The Princess of Neutralia (German: Die Prinzessin von Neutralien) is a 1917 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Paul Bildt and Hermann Picha.
The Queen of Moulin Rouge (German: Die Königin von Moulin Rouge) is a 1926 Austrian silent comedy film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Mady Christians, André Roanne and Livio Pavanelli.
The Schorrsiegel Affair (German:Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel) is a 1928 German silent film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Bernhard Goetzke, Walter Rilla and Anita Dorris.
It was a released as a silent film Romance of the Western Chamber (1927 film) in China in 1927, directed by Li Minwei and Yao Hou, and in 2005, the TVB series Lost in the Chamber of Love made a twist in the tale and had Hong Niang, played by Myolie Wu, falling in love with Zhang Sheng, played by Ron Ng, while Cui Yingying, played by Michelle Ye, would marry Emperor Dezong of Tang, played by Kenneth Ma.
The Yellow Foal (Hungarian: Sárga csikó) is a 1913 Hungarian silent drama film directed by Félix Vanyl and starring Lili Berky, Gyula Nagy and Victor Varconi.
Three Cuckoo Clocks (German:Die drei Kuckucksuhren) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Nina Vanna and Nils Asther.
Their silent film releases also included original organ scores composed and performed by Rosa Rio (1902–2010), who had been a theatre organist during the silent era.
The near-complete silent film can be viewed on the National Film and Sound Archive's YouTube channel (see external links).
A 1916 silent film A Message to Garcia where Rowan was played by Robert Conness and a 1936 film A Message to Garcia in which he was played by John Boles.
In addition to being a popular stage play, Terra baixa was made into six films, including a silent film in the United States, entitled "Martha of the Lowlands" (1914) and Leni Riefenstahl's Tiefland (1954).
This left Bobby Hutchins as the only full-time Our Ganger left from the silent film era.
One of the troop’s new members, Fern Andra, did not return after a brief European tour; later, she resurfaced as a star of German silent film.
The story is a remake of a 1927 First National silent film, The Lady in Ermine, that starred Corinne Griffith.
Bridgetta Clark (active 1920–1926), an early silent film actress.
J. Charles Haydon (1876–1943), American silent film director, actor and screenwriter
The first moving picture shown at the theater was in November 1929, Harold Lloyd’s “Welcome Danger.” It was originally a silent film but at its preview it was eclipsed by a one-reel comedy with sound.
On February 26, 2013, as part of its film series, the DCS Premiered a new all-strings film score to the silent-film horror classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Conrad Veidt.
In November 2011 DRN performed a specially-commissioned, self-composed soundtrack to the 1925 silent film The Lost World, at The Model in Sligo.
The operetta was the basis for a 1927 German silent film The Last Waltz directed by Arthur Robison and starring Liane Haid, Willy Fritsch and Suzy Vernon.
Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines(K. 13513 - The adventures of a ten-mark note) is a German silent film directed by Berthold Viertel.
Originally a silent film, recent copies have been dubbed using music taken from Man Ray's personal record collection of the time.
Erstwhile Susan is a 1919 American silent film drama directed by John S. Robertson, produced and distributed by Realart Pictures.
In 1920 he appeared in the silent film version of Heidi and in The Jucklins.
The novel's title was borrowed in 1932 by pioneer African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux for his talkie Veiled Aristocrats, a remake of House Behind the Cedars, his 1924 silent film based on the novel by that name by Charles Chesnutt.
Harry A. Pollard (1879–1934), American silent film actor director, and screenwriter
She started in movies at the age of five, getting her first part playing Babe Ruth's daughter in the silent film, Babe Comes Home in 1927.
High Gear (1924 film), silent film starring Bobby Vernon and written by Keene Thompson
The soundtrack to Ararat (movie) by Atom Egoyan and the soundtrack for the restoration of Armenian first silent film "Namus" also have contributions from the Hover.
His first screen appearance was in the silent film Food of Love in 1916.
Gade was principal conductor of the cinema orchestra at the time; the music was used as part of the accompaniment of the Danish premiere of the silent film Don Q, Son of Zorro.
A talking-movie version also called The Man Who Played God appeared in 1932, starring George Arliss (who was also in the 1922 silent film) and Bette Davis, a role she credited as her big "break" in Hollywood.
The silent film with English inter-titles, dissected race and gender relations and was centred on a love triangle, featuring Paul Robeson and HD.
Later at Alumnae Theatre, Lang was cast in a stage version of Moonlight and Valentino as Valentino, a character based on Rudolph Valentino the 1920s silent film star.
On December 10, 1913 the silent film Leah Kleschna premiered with Carlotta Nillson playing Leah, House Peters as Sylvaine and Hale Clarendon as Kleschna.
Barnes has the honor of being the only known stunt double for silent film star Buster Keaton during Keaton's independent years of filmmaking.
In 2003, Singaporean composer Mark Chan, in a co-commissioned project by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Singapore Arts Festival, did the score for the silent film and productions were staged in each country, featuring live music accompanying the screening of Little Toys.
The book was the basis for a 1923 British silent film adaptation Married Love directed by Alexander Butler.
The Mary Pickford Theater, named in honor of silent film star Mary Pickford, is the "motion picture and television reading room" of the United States' Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
The year of its publication, the novel was adapted for the silent film Nell Gwyn, a prestige production directed by Herbert Wilcox for which the Hollywood actress Dorothy Gish was brought over to Britain to play Gwyn.
The Center's other archival and preservations projects include features and documentaries from around the globe; early American silent film comedies and features; rare early Russian films; pre–World War II home movies of Yurburg, Horodok, Novogrudok, and Berlin; travelogues of Białystok, Krakow, Warsaw, Vilnius, and Lviv; industrial and fundraising films produced by Jewish agencies; early documentary footage of Palestine/Israel.
The silent film historical work of one of the members of its staff, David Kiehn, was featured on 60 Minutes for demonstrating that a film of Market Street in San Francisco was actually made a few days before the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
Polly with a Past is a 1920 American silent film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures and directed by Leander de Cordova.
The film was made in the house of Sampson De Brier, a silent film actor, who later appeared in Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954).
Ricardio is one of the few individuals in the Adventure Time universe to have a highly detailed face, which has been compared to the moon in 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon.
In 1927 he would make his film debut in the Theodor Luts-directed silent film drama Noored kotkad (English: Young Eagles), which chronicled Estonian soldiers fighting in the Estonian War of Independence from 1918 to 1920.
In 1913 he created (together with Hanns Heinz Ewers and Paul Wegener) the silent film Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague).
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, a 1927 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the 1913 novel
A 1921 American silent film adaptation was directed by Edward Sloman and featured Wyndham Standing as Ashe and May Allison as Bristol.
Thomas H. Ince (1882–1924), American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer
In 1916 the play was adapted into a silent film Trelawny of the Wells directed by Cecil Hepworth and starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome and Violet Hopson.
In 1937, silent film star Norma Talmadge and her ex-husband Joseph Schenk, president of 20th Century Fox, bought the building for $1.5 million.
He is known for composing music scores for independent movies such as Kaboom, Highway, and American Revolutionary, as well as for silent film restorations for Turner Classic Movies.
His nearly 20 books include Classics of the Silent Screen (1959, attributed to nostalgia maven Joe Franklin but actually written by Everson), The American Movie (1963), The Films of Laurel and Hardy (1967), The Art of W. C. Fields (1967), A Pictorial History of the Western Film (1971), and American Silent Film (1978).
In 1919, she was cast in the role of "The Powerful Katrinka" in The Toonerville Trolley silent film series based on Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Folks comic strip, which was produced by Siegmund Lubin's Betzwood Motion Picture Studios in Pennsylvania.
Since 2001, they have been performing a live soundtrack to Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1928 silent film Storm Over Asia.