Couldn't really complete this because I've never seen a silent film all the way through.
The entirety of my silent film knowledge: We saw clips of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Battleship Potemkin at uni and were told that the Steps at Odessa is a very famous scene. I know Charlie Chaplin was a notable silent star. And I was aware that they originally had an organ playing in the cinemas rather than actual silence. (That last fact partly courtesy of Terry Pratchett's nice novel about early films, and partly from general knowledge osmosis.)
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Date: 2009-08-19 01:52 pm (UTC)The entirety of my silent film knowledge: We saw clips of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Battleship Potemkin at uni and were told that the Steps at Odessa is a very famous scene. I know Charlie Chaplin was a notable silent star. And I was aware that they originally had an organ playing in the cinemas rather than actual silence. (That last fact partly courtesy of Terry Pratchett's nice novel about early films, and partly from general knowledge osmosis.)