Thursday, November 6, 2014

The Silent Era of Film (Miles Sullivan Film 3rd)

http://youtu.be/qNseEVlaCl4


Films used to be black and white and synced to no sound at all except possibly music. Recording voices was impossible in the earlier stages of the film industry. Silent Films had a very big aspect to them, without voices, the actors and actresses had to exaggerate their actions in order to make a clear story. One of the Most famous film makers of all time, Charlie Chaplin, Started out when film was still silent, and even though his movies wowed the audiences, people grew tired of no voices. With the introduction of a "Vitaphone" system which can record and sync voices to film, Movies began to have words in them, they were known as "Talkies". Talkies became increasingly more and more popular until Silent movies just weren't in the picture anymore. Sadly, It is estimated that over 70% of American Silent Films have been lost forever.