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.

In 2012 FARC announced they would no longer participate in kidnappings for ransom and released the last 10 soldiers and police officers they kept as prisoners but it has kept silent about the status of hundreds of civilians still reported as hostages.

By 1936, the transition phase arguably ends, with Modern Times being the last notable silent film.

Another likely reason The Greatest Show On Earth was voted Best Picture of 1952 was that it was seen as a " last chance " vote for Cecil B. DeMille, to honor him for a lifetime of film making going well back into the silent movie era.

The film is also notable for being Keaton's last silent screen performance.

In 1928 Novello starred in the silent adaptation of Coward's much more successful The Vortex, and made his last silent film, A South Sea Bubble.

Floyd Crosby won the award for Tabu in 1931, which was the last silent film to win in this category.

Her last silent movie, The Kiss ( 1929 ), was also the studio's.

* Famous silent film actor Eddie Quillan made his last television appearance on Matlock in the season 1 episode " The Author " ( 1987 ).

Points West, a Hoot Gibson Western released by Universal Pictures in August 1929, was the last purely silent mainstream feature put out by a major Hollywood studio.

Chaplin's feature The Circus, released in 1928, was his last film before the motion picture industry embraced sound recording and brought the silent movie era to a close.

It was one of the last silent films released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

In 1924, Renoir directed the first of his nine silent films, most of which starred his first wife, Catherine Hessling, who was also his father's last model.

In the last months in office, Drnovšek continued his attacks on Prime Minister Janez Janša, who mostly remained silent on the issue.

" His first picture — made in the silent era — was called " the most famous short film ever made " by critic Roger Ebert, and his last film — made 48 years later — won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics.

* The Docks of New York ( 1928 Paramount )(* her last pure silent film )

It was the gang's last robbery before going silent for one year.

On first meeting, Churchill and Roosevelt were silent for a moment until Churchill said " At long last, Mr. President ", to which Roosevelt replied " Glad to have you aboard, Mr. Churchill ".

Diana Serra Cary ( Baby Peggy ), Luise Rainer, Mickey Rooney and Dickie Moore are the last surviving stars from the silent era.

Rowling commented on this phenomenon in Conversations with J. K. Rowling, in which she complained that the Italian translation of Professor Dumbledore's last name was " Silente "; rather than recognizing that " Dumbledore " was an old Devon word for " bumblebee ," the translator took the word " dumb " and translated it as " silent ".

It is probable that the chronicler ascribed the events of 718 or 719 to Tervel simply because this was the last name of a Bulgar ruler that he was familiar with, and that his sources had been silent about the name, as in his account of the siege of Constantinople.

The Sierra Club's Energy Resources Policy, adopted in 2006 and last amended in 2011, is currently silent on nuclear fusion.

This was the last silent film Hitchcock directed before he made the transition to sound film with his next film Blackmail.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

In the last of Kurosawa's films as an assistant director, Horse ( Uma, 1941 ), Kurosawa took over most of the production, as Yamamoto was occupied with the shooting of another film.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

Additionally, there have been fictional astronauts in film, literature and television who have been described as " the last man to walk on the Moon ", implying they were crew members on Apollo 17.

* In the film Equilibrium, an arcology named Libria is the last human civilization, a society in which peace is kept by the forced administration of an injected liquid drug designed to completely suppress emotions.

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

Lancaster's last film was Field of Dreams ( 1989 ).

The documentary film Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street by director Phil Ranstrom features Bo Diddley's last on-camera interview.

This was Bela Lugosi's last speaking role in a feature film.

During the last few years, camera cranes have been miniaturized and costs have dropped so dramatically that most aspiring film makers have access to these tools.

However, traditional films have frequently had much of the same sort of the issues to deal with ; film shoots may last several months and as scenes are frequently shot out of story sequence, footage shot weeks apart may be edited together as part of the same day's action in the completed film.

Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.

Though DeMille completed the film, it proved to be his last, for he never fully recovered, and died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure.

It was the last film in which Marker includes " travel footage " for many years.

* The Shootist – John Wayne ’ s last film that was shot on location at the Krebbs-Peterson House

Until 1906, the year of his last film, Doyen recorded more than 60 operations.

As a result, she slipped from the list of top box office stars, last appearing in the top ten in 1966 with the hit film The Glass Bottom Boat.

: The first, Doctor Syn ( 1937 ), featured noted actor George Arliss in the title role and was its star's last film.

The film Alpha and Omega, which was his last movie role, was dedicated to him.

Lullaby, perhaps the last film in which Vertov was able to maintain his artistic vision, was released in 1937.

In this last section of the story ( book and film ), the reactivated monolith consumes Bowman and modifies him into something more than human.