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Many of these early silent films involved a damsel-in-distress telephone operator calling for help in the midst of a robbery.
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The associations are wild and free, yet nothing feels arbitrary or showy (one thinks of the visionary episodes in silent films rather than of Fellini).
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Jack's death scene in the water has the shuddery majesty of the greatest silent films, because it's a moment that touches how vulnerable and precious life really is.
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Cinema appreciation in Ireland can be traced back to the final years of the 19th Century, when eager Dubliners would gather in the city centre to watch silent films incorporated into variety shows.
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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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Even in the early silent days when films were black and white, actors exaggerate moves to make up for the camera limitations.
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The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria is housed in a building that was part of a 1920s film studio that made silent and early sound films.
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Of course, films were all silent back then.
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Let me predict that few great silent, foreign or little-known films will be on your show, and that after the balloting, the winner will not be 'Citizen Kane, ' 'Rules of the Game, ' 'Metropolis' or anything by Buster Keaton.
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If anything, I would have preferred Jackson who, however noisy his films, has a dash of silent-movie showmanship about him to be even more unabashed in his melodrama, leaving Bilbo to teeter on the brink.
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