It was soon superseded by photography, thesilentmovieand the talking film.
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The emotion of voice is often something which one feels is missing in asilentmovie.
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What was different about oursilentmovieexperience was that the visuals were cut-and-dry, narrative, and from another epoch.
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It was built for silent movies, perhaps rather late in thesilentmovieera, and the equipment for talkies was fitted later.
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She embarked on a comeback and intended to star in a feature-lengthsilentmovie.
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The episode finished with an extendedsilentmoviesegment, in which each movie comically interferes with the others.
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He portrayed himself in an earlysilentmovie.
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Initially made as asilentmovie, it was converted into a talkie halfway into production.
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She performed insilentmovieproductions as early as 1917.
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In many ways, a shadowplay can be understood as asilentmovie, with a theatre orchestra playing in the pit.
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He worked forsilentmovietheaters as a musical director and sound effects engineer, and invented musical devices.
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He also made some appearances in thesilentmovieindustry.
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Levin was the last livingsilentmovieveteran when he died in 1996.
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In addition, he was an avid organ player, starting by playing the background music insilentmovietheaters.
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Since it was asilentmovie, there was an announcer at the theatre who would explain the story and the situation.
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