The British director was 24 when he made the 1923 silent film, The White Shadow.
The organ will be officially unveiled in October when it will provide live accompaniment to a silent film.
It is a black-and-white silent film, and, of course, Charlie Chaplin was a pioneer of black-and-white silent cinema.
But "Spirit" evokes, through its poetic spirit, the mysterious power of silent film.
The final nominees ranged from Erich von Stroheim's 1924 silent film Greed to the 2004 summer popcorn flick National Treasure.
In that movie, Comden and Green mined comic gold out of the transition from silent film to talkies in Hollywood.
George Valentin is a famous silent film star, but with the advent of sound and talkies, his career begins to fade.
Barely five minutes in length, the 1903 silent film Runaway Match is said to be the first car-centric movie ever made.
You could say he struck gold, as the movie turned out to be the highest-grossing comedy of the silent film era.
We watched each other typing and reacting to the words that scrolled next to our images, co-stars in a postmodern silent film.
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival's attendance is up 30% in the past five years, says Stacey Wisnia, executive director of the event.
The home had been a former silent film studio, and Mr. Duquette had installed a throne from the Chapultepec Palace in Mexico City.
The silent film takes an unusual perspective on the city's architecture.
There was once a small group of apparent political nut jobs in Germany led by a guy who looked like a popular silent film comic.
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At one point, Anaya wears a black body stocking and a white plastic mask, and she looks like some legendary figure from a lyrical silent film.
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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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.
The 1965 "Beach Blanket Bingo, " for example, featured subplots involving a mermaid, a motorcycle gang and a skydiving school run by Don Rickles, and comic touches by silent film star Buster Keaton.
"The Artist" producer Thomas Langmann said the awards attention for the film was especially gratifying given how difficult it was to line up financing for a silent film, a form that went out of vogue more than 80 years ago.
Silent film on the Death Star.
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It remains to be seen whether a mass audience will flock to the film though despite the outpouring of critical love. (The film currently earns a 97 out of 100 on Rotten Tomatoes.) No matter what, a silent film is going to be a tough sell.
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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).
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 .
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.
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The office is silent when our small film crew arrives at Wikimedia's San Francisco headquarters.
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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According to one count, there have been 18 film versions, going back to silent pictures, and 9 made for television.
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