Profiles of Musical Instruments 
.... The dean of
silent movie organists was Gaylord Carter, and today(s
silent movie organists include Robert Israel and Dennis James. ....
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Slapstick Comedy
Slapstick comedy was a particularly strong form of
silent movie comedy because it did not rely on words but on physicality and on the interaction of performers ....
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History & Evolution of American Silent Film
.... music is "set" to a
movie. Setting a
movie to music was dependent on
silent film era projection speeds. Before a film was shown to ....
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Dracula Movie Versions
.... The most notable
movie versions of Bram Stoker's novel have been Nosferatu, a
silent movie from 1922; Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi in 1931; The Horror of ....
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Brief discussion of the history of women in entertainment
.... Enstad, Nan. Dressed for adventure: Working Women and
Silent Movie Serials in the 1910s. Feminist Studies. Volume 21, issue 1, p. 67+. 1995. Fischer, Craig. ....
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Edgar Allan Poe
.... hallways, piercing screams, and horror films such as The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Fall of the House of Usher, and the
silent movie The Bells ....
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Edgar Allan Poe & Alcoholism
.... hallways, piercing screams, and horror films such as The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Fall of the House of Usher, and the
silent movie The Bells ....
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The Silent Film, Broken Blossoms
DW Griffith's 1919
silent film Broken Blossoms is an allegorical, melodramatic tragedy about a .... A prime example is the closet scene of the
movie's climax. ....
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The movie Philadelphia & Homosexuality
.... He now sees the
movie as a necessary start on a long-term shift in .... translation has to start somewhere; and it is infinitely preferable to a
silent separatism. ....
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DW Griffith and Film Technique
DW Griffith's 1915
silent film "The Birth of a Nation" is one of the most influential films ever made, and one of the most controversial. The
movie was the ....
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History of Movies & Technology
.... music is "set" to a
movie. Setting a
movie to music was dependent on
silent film era projection speeds. Before a film was shown to ....
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Trends in the Art Market
.... The Hollywood division of collectibles covers the period from
silent film to the present, and the areas of
movie memorabilia are
movie posters, paper ephemera ....
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Fritz Lang
.... the city is one of his early treatments of the gangster
movie, while Thomas .... Both directors started in
silent film and adjusted easily to "talkies", then later ....
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Book & Film Versions of The Wizard of Oz
.... Baum would likely have been favorably disposed to the
movie given that he himself had written, produced, and directed several Oz films during the
silent era. ....
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Gangster Film Genre
.... of the genre as it was the first gangster
movie to make a big impression on the public" (Cameron, 1975, p. 16). Although these early
silent era gangster films ....
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The Gangster Film
.... of the genre as it was the first gangster
movie to make a big impression on the public" (Cameron, 1975, p. 16). Although these early
silent era gangster films ....
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Brandon Lee
.... Death During Filming" 7). Producer Pressman decided to finish the
movie, a decision .... Many of Lee's half completed scenes were reconceived as
silent montages. ....
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The Maltese Falcon (1940)
.... The book and the
movie have essentially the same beginning in terms of action and .... Then he looked at Spade and made a
silent whistling mouth of appreciation ....
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Harry Cohn
.... In 1928, Harry invested $150,000 in Submarine, a
silent film with sound effects and a .... and Capra left after 12 years over the making of a
movie about Chopin in ....
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Gone with the Wind
.... production phase of the
movie that undoubtedly led to its near silence after the film's release (Leab 101). The organization has not always been so
silent at re ....
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Early Development of Movies
.... The nickelodeon set in place certain
movie-going features that became standard .... Another interesting sociological element of the early
silent pictures is that as ....
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Race Films & Black Female Filmmakers
.... There was a thriving black cinema beginning in the
silent era, just as there .... The first black-owned
movie theater opened in Chicago in 1905, and the opening of ....
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Black Films, Black Filmmakers Black films from the 1930s and 194
.... they had no existing reservoir of experienced film actors and
movie technicians to .... Black films and producers in the
silent era were completely ignored by the ....
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Boys Don't Cry
.... Although she tried to keep
silent, police started an investigation. .... one born with sexual characteristics of both genders, but the
movie makes clear that she ....
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Jim Carrey and Charlie Chaplin
.... enormous risks. He continued to make
silent films such as City Lights after sound had been introduced into the
movie industry. He also ....
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Devotion (1995)
.... The
movie(s last 12 minutes include a nine-and-a-half-minute
silent montage showing Sheila and Lynn spending the night at Sheila(s house, Julie worrying over ....
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Media Fright Reaction
.... Any subjects who had seen the
movie previously were asked to move to the back of the room and to remain
silent during the viewing. ....
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK
.... a total system where the literary and visual elements of the
movie would be .... of technical virtuosity was "Blackmail" which was first shot as a
silent film, but ....
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Portrayal of Asian Women in US Media
.... The basic types of Asian women were the "good" women, who were depicted as childlike, submissive,
silent, and eager for sex (as Liat in the
movie South Pacific ....
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Misogyny in North America
.... such a body, reed-thin Michelle Pfeiffer was cast in the
movie version of .... From
silent-film stars such as Fatty Arbuckle (whose nickname celebrated his size) to ....
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