The silent movie, the Viennese symphony and the epic poem all had their heydays in the past.
The actor has been widely praised for his role in the silent movie The Artist, which has been nominated for nine Oscars.
The Gish sisters were huge silent movie stars, with Lillian going on to be nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1946 for Duel in the Sun.
That's long enough to have seen the first silent movie, when it came out, provided a movie theater even existed back then on the island of Barbados, where Sisnett spent his life.
Ahead of nominations for the 2012 Oscars, he turned up at a screening for silent movie The Artist with two of Charlie Chaplin's granddaughters, keeping its profile high amongst the Hollywood cognoscenti who decide the victors.
Ms Bruni worked for several years as a super-model, earning accolades from British clothes designer John Galliano who described her in the film as being "like a silent movie actress with her body language - the dress is her script".
The silent-movie star Rudolph Valentino had the body of a philosophy grad student coming off a two-week flu.
The one exception, apart from that silent montage, is the movie's most ephemeral element, the music.
Pre-preview announcements continue to pound home the message that our smartphones should be silent and dark while the movie plays.
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Here we have, side by side, a French silent film about Hollywood and a Hollywood movie set in nineteen-thirties Paris, with extended flashbacks to the beginnings of French silent film.
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 .
Much of the first part of the movie is given over to raptly silent passages of physical effort men lifting, hauling, pounding, working silently in the muck and viscous slime.
Both new entries in the Top 10 are silent - Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera at eight, and Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc at nine.
Barely five minutes in length, the 1903 silent film Runaway Match is said to be the first car-centric movie ever made.
The movie is a sweet, chaste dream of good will, but silent movies were not about good will and restraint.
You could say he struck gold, as the movie turned out to be the highest-grossing comedy of the silent film era.
The property boasts a two-bedroom guesthouse, a state-of-the-art movie theater with a pop-corn machine and a piano for silent film soundtracks, and an antique-panel covered office with soothing waterfalls.
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In that movie, Comden and Green mined comic gold out of the transition from silent film to talkies in Hollywood.
As a boy, he saw the 1925 silent fantasy "The Lost World, " Willis O'Brien's stop-motion movie about dinosaurs in a South American jungle.
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