Each frame comes between the light and the lens and is individually projected on the screen, at the rate, for silent movies, of 16 frames per second, and, for sound films, 24 frames per second.

Producer Fellini should have looked at some of the old silent films where they really had parties!!

In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

Category: American silent feature films

He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films.

Chaplin was cynical about this new medium and the technical shortcomings it presented, believing that " talkies " lacked the artistry of silent films.

Chaplin finished editing the picture in December 1930, by which time silent films were an anachronism.

Due to the lack of a script, all of his silent films were usually shot in sequence.

Chaplin's silent films usually follow the Tramp's struggles to survive in an often hostile world.

Both Richard Schickel and Andrew Sarris have also written that many of the gags in his silent films needed the " intimacy of the camera " to work and could not have been performed on the stage to the same effect.

He thereafter composed the score for all of his films, and from the late 1950s to his death, he re-scored all of his silent features and some of his short films.

* From 1917 to 1918, silent film actor Billy West made more than 20 films as a comedian precisely imitating Chaplin's tramp character, makeup and costume.

In 2010 the New York Guitar Festival commissioned new scores on some of Chaplin's silent films from a number of contemporary artists, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Marc Ribot, David Bromberg, and Alex de Grassi.

Comedy was ideal for the early silent films, as it was dependent on visual action and physical humour rather than sound.

Slapstick ( The Three Stooges is an excellent example of this kind of comedy ) was popular in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective, and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences.

Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930.

The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had made a number of very popular short silent films, used the arrival of sound to deepen their well-formed screen characterizations and enhance their visual humour, and went on to great success in talking films.

The comedian Charlie Chaplin was one of the last silent film hold-outs, and his films during the 1930s were devoid of dialogue, although they did employ sound effects.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

Some of these plays were later adapted into silent and sound films.

In 1969-70 he was presenter of The Golden Silents on BBC TV, which attempted authentic showings of silent films, without the commentaries with which they were usually shown on television before then.

In particular, French words that end in a silent e ( a schwa, eu, such as femme ) and words that end in a pronounced consonant and which usually have an e muet added at the end ( such as flic ) retain the sound of the e muet in verlan.

* Dame Judi Dench made an appearance as the ( hitherto usually silent ) Pru Forrest in 1989 for the 10, 000th episode.

In English theatre tradition, a dumbshow is a masque-like interlude of silent pantomime usually with allegorical content that refers to the occasion of a play or its theme, the most famous being the pantomime played out in Hamlet ( III. ii ).

The director usually cast her in unglamorous roles most notably as the unfaithful wife in The Merchant of Four Seasons and the silent abused assistant in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.

Soon he progressed to other work such as stills photography, writing titles ( for the silent films ) and many other jobs including a few acting roles, usually as comic characters.

In some countries, newsreels generally used music as a background for usually silent on-site film footage.

It's a rare example of a Styx song that ( briefly ) requires four voice parts ; during the Return to Paradise tour, the " America " bridge would be sung by DeYoung, Shaw, James Young and the usually silent Chuck Panozzo.

Wet sands are usually silent because the grains stick together instead of sliding past each other, but small amounts of water can actually raise the pitch of the sounds produced.

They are usually silent but make hissing and roaring sounds at the nest or when jostling for food.

It is usually silent, but has a breeding season honking call, eeooo eeooo eeooo.

It is usually silent but has a mewing call which is most often uttered at roost sites.

A silent partner is one who still shares in the profits and losses of the business, but who is uninvolved in its management, and / or whose association with the business is not publicly known ; these partners usually provide capital.

In French, for example, the's ' at the end of words is usually silent (" militaire " is pronounced the same as " militaires ") unless followed by a word beginning in a vowel.

Animated shows, such as The Simpsons, Futurama, King of the Hill, South Park, American Dad !, and Family Guy, and even daytime cartoons such as SpongeBob SquarePants and What's New, Scooby-Doo ?, have also gone silent, except on the very rare occasion that canned laughter is used comically for a single joke, usually as a parody of a sitcom.

His sketches are usually featured in a silent movie style with fast-tracked editing and old music in the background.

It is usually silent but has loud, cackling calls which are uttered at the nest or in feeding flocks.

It is usually silent except for newing and wailing notes while on the breeding grounds.

Both sexes are usually silent, although the male has a distinctive " raspberry-blowing " call " prrt ".

Because of this, many in some Western cultures feel uneasy when one party is silent, and usually try their best to fill up the silence with small talk.

The films were usually silent and Mr. Dressup would narrate in order to explain events.

This stork is usually silent, but indulges in mutual bill-clattering when adults meet at the nest.