The largest employer for musicians back then was the film industry, especially during the silent-film era.

当时音乐家的最大雇主是电影行业，尤其是在无声电影时代。

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If the deal comes off, United Artists, a moribund label owned by MGM, will return to its silent-film era roots as a studio run by the talent.

如果交易成功，MGM旗下过气的联美公司将作为一家由电影主创人员经营的制片公司，回归无声电影时代。

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Even the funeral of silent film star Rudolph Valentino in New York in 1926 drew 40,000 fans.

甚至1926年在纽约为无声电影明星鲁道夫·瓦伦蒂诺举办的葬礼也只有4万名粉丝前往。

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His first version of the historic film "The Ten Commandments" was a huge success among silent films in nineteen twenty-three.

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Maddin has discovered a new kind of cinema, the welding of silent-film techniques, avant-garde imagery, and twenty-first-century technology (there are digital effects smuggled in throughout the picture).

NEWYORKER: Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

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 .

NEWYORKER: Boy Meets Girl

With such disruptive devices as intercutting color and black-and-white footage, parodying silent-film antics, and inserting scenes of youths dancing the twist, Pasolini both affirms the classical grandeur of cinematic modernism and conveys his sense of a time out of joint.

NEWYORKER: La Ricotta