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.

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In the foreground, sitting on a hill overlooking the scene, is a couple, the man turned to the camera with an angry scowl on his face.

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He cracks up the audience with his fat man and a camera shtick.

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Sixty years later the 84-year-old stares straight into the camera with the look of a man whose empire is up for grabs.

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"Be patient, be patient, " a man behind the camera shouts at the inmates, with one waving his hand out the cell bars.

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In a recent CNN article about this fall's comedy landscape, TVLine.com's Matt Web Mitovich noted that "Two and a Half Men, " "2 Broke Girls, " "New Girl, " and "Last Man Standing" were all Top 10 scripted programs, with "New Girl" being the only single-camera comedy out of the group.

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