Showings are often organized online, and participants meet at specified locations to watch films projected on bridge pillars or warehouses.

Showings in 1920s Japan would have included live narration by a storyteller or benshi () as well as musical accompaniment.

Showings of the documentary were also organized in Italy by groups with an anti-fascist orientation and members of the Slovene minority in Italy.

Showings at the 2003, 2007 and 2011 Rugby World Cup have followed this formula, where they managed two wins and two losses during the pool stages.

Showings over the years have been limited to midnight movies and similar outlets.

Showings included " The Jazz Singer " in January, 1928.

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.

His silent films usually centred on the Tramp's plight in poverty and his run-ins with the law, but also explored controversial topics, such as immigration ( The Immigrant, 1917 ), illegitimacy ( The Kid, 1921 ) and drug use ( Easy Street, 1917 ).

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.

Standing there she saw Shades of Night come through the trees and stop beside the lodge, silent, almost imperious, her body taut, simply standing without speaking or moving while the wife of Walitzee waited, perhaps denying the dread that moved in her.

Although this is a relatively rare instance of a female Confucian voice, Ban Zhao almost entirely accepts the prevailing views concerning women's proper roles ; they should be silent, hard-working, and compliant.

It is generally a silent, nocturnal animal, but males have a very loud advertising call that can be heard from almost a kilometre away during the breeding season.

( However, a silent aleph — indicating an original glottal stop consonant sound which has become silent in Hebrew pronunciation — can occur after almost any vowel.

Keaton observed that during his silent period, such a hat cost him around two dollars ; at the time of his interview, he said, they cost almost $ 13.

The book was extremely popular when first published, caused " a silent and almost immediate revolution in biology ", and continues to be widely read.

Place cells are typically almost silent when a rat is moving around outside the place field, but reach sustained rates as high as 40 Hz when the rat is near the center.

* The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is silent about this battle, but documents a gap of almost 70 years between two major Anglo-Saxon leaders ( Bretwaldas ) in the 5th and 6th centuries.

The machine uses a membrane keyboard, which is almost silent in use ; an optional electronic " click " can be turned on to indicate keystrokes.

The film did attract criticism for being almost completely silent, despite the movie industry having long since embraced the talking picture.

The Wind is almost certainly the best-a silent classic, revived in recent years by producer / director Kevin Brownlow with a Carl Davis score, which gave the great Lillian Gish one of the finest parts of her career ... Sjostrom treats the inevitable clash between Letty and her new surroundings with considerable realism and detail, allowing Gish as much leeway as possible to develop her performance.

Whereas Hoof is eternally silent, Mouth, conversely, has an apparent speech impediment which makes him talk very rapidly and repeat almost everything he says.

In 1989, following the post-Neoist " Festival of Plagiarism " in Glasgow, Scotland, artist Mark Bloch left mail art and after publishing " The Last Word " remained defiantly silent on Neoism for almost two decades.

The programme was almost entirely silent.

For example, Speed is silent for almost all of Act 2, Scene 4, as is Thurio, Silvia and Julia for most of the last half of the final scene.

The 1950 film Sunset Boulevard with William Holden and Gloria Swanson featured a fictional, ageing silent screen actress named Norma Desmond whose name was taken from Taylor's middle name and Mabel Normand's last name as a way to resonate with the widely publicised scandals of almost thirty years before.

Every hour or so, a 10 – 20 minute ' word war ' is held in which the entire room falls almost completely silent with concentration, save for the sound of keystrokes.

Another advantage is that the ultrasonic vibration is almost silent.

Brownlee also invented the lethal and almost silent air pistol the Spider used for ' quiet ' kills.

There have been almost 200 films based on the novels of Charles Dickens alone, beginning with the silent short film Death of Nancy Sykes in 1897.

The " t " should be silent, represented by almost a stutter.

The Green Hat was turned into a play, produced on Broadway, successfully, in 1925 starring Katherine Cornell and almost simultaneously but less successfully in London's West End starring Tallulah Bankhead, and a Hollywood movie ( silent ) in 1928, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.

Now the Great Hall Of Dragons lies almost silent.