Suggestion was everything in the silent era, when showing counted so much more than telling.

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Meanwhile Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, the couple behind "Little Miss Sunshine" shot a slow-motion short on slapstick stunts from the silent era.

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You could say he struck gold, as the movie turned out to be the highest-grossing comedy of the silent film era.

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As this extravagant, wickedly ironic 1928 melodrama shows, Erich von Stroheim was not only a supreme (if typecast) actor but one of the greatest silent-era directors.

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Lucid, sardonic, cinema-centric asides (especially one great set piece involving an aged, hearing-impaired movie technician from the silent-film era) adorn their all-night tangle of intimacy, building to a grungy, furiously self-deprecating .

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From the era of silent movies through the present day, Universal Pictures has been regarded as the home of the monsters.

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Immerse yourself in surroundings that evoke a more genteel era and watch treasures from the archives in the glass orangerie (modelled on Crystal Palace), silent films accompanied by live orchestration in the neo-classical drawing room or take part in a foley workshop (recording sound effects) in the crumbling stable block.

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