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The veterans, born between 1922 and 1943, are known as the Greatest Generation, the matures, the silents.
Later, it would have been sound added to silents.
They say that he could ride pretty well back in the silents, but he doesn't do anything particularly impressive in these later sound films.
Of course, you expect terrible special effects with a movie this old, but I've seen silents that were better.
Admittedly, the TV networks sometimes handled the material as crudely as the "Flicker Flashbacks" people, but higher-toned series such as "Silents, Please" treated the films with respect.
Although today his star has virtually diminished, Charley Chase was considered the leader in the short subject comedy field in the waning years of the silents.
Vivien Oakland, one of the few comic short leads to have a flourishing career long after the silents, is perfect as Charley's long of nose wife.
As most film viewers today prefer sound features, those who were associated with short subjects and silents are left out to pasture.
This is a better than average silent movie and it's still well worth seeing if you are a fan of the silents.
Although the story-line was rather typical of Clara's later silents, I still find it somewhat heart-stirring and incredibly fun.
Other than that, the movie rolls along more or less well, with little jumps in continuity here and there -- something quite common in films from this era -- and has that vague sped up feel typical of silents.
While "Wild Orchids" is not a major classic, the film does illustrate the magic of the Silents at their peak.
Hickok was a brilliant cinematographer whose career began in the silents and he would go on to shoot such films as The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, To Have and Have Not, A slight Case of Murder, Gentleman Jim and the sci-fi classic Them.
The Lodger is universally considered the best of Hitchcock's silents.
All the players are fine with no real standouts except for Novello, who had a very successful career in silents (16 films) but retired from talking films after only 6 to become one of England's most influential composers until his death in 1951.
The movie was a labor of love from Keaton and crew and deserves to find a place in movie history long after other silents of the era have disintegrated.
I'm 55, and have seen countless movies in my day, from silents to computerized re-makes of classics.
But as is the case with performers who have either left the studio in a bad way, or were known for being erratic, disruptive, or plain uncooperative, or could not make the transition from one period of their career to the next (in this case, silents to talkies), they were immediately replaced with performers who could fill their shoes.
It was worth it as it was a far better movie than I had expected, it not being one of the most well known of silents.
Most of her famous films were either silents or poorly dubbed films that were originally silent (MISS EUROPE).
She is co-starred here with Charles Farrell, who was a superstar of the silents but didn't seem to click in talkies.
Montgomery was one of those actors recruited after the change from silents.
While Hollywood had just about completely switched over to talkies by 1929, several nations still produced silents well into the 1930s--among them France, Japan and China.
I saw The Black Pirate during the first season(?) of Silents Please, before the Ernie Kovacs hosted episodes.
I've been working my way through the wonderful DVD box set of Harold Lloyd, and I have to say that his silents are superb and I love them to bits.