{"id":215,"date":"2012-09-10T23:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiblog.educacion.navarra.es\/msantosd\/?p=215"},"modified":"2016-12-16T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T23:04:05","slug":"silent-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiblog.educacion.navarra.es\/msantosd\/2012\/09\/10\/silent-film\/","title":{"rendered":"SILENT FILM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, mime (US: pantomime) and title cards. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made practical in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion amplifier tube and the introduction of the Vitaphone system. After the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927, &#8220;talkies&#8221; became more and more commonplace. Within a decade, popular widespread production of silent films had ceased.<br \/>\nLink to the lectures and information about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.march.es\/conferencias\/detalle.aspx?p4=210&amp;l=2\" title=\"Silent Film ...in fundaci\u00f3n Juan March\"> Silent Film&#8230;in Fundaci\u00f3n Juan March<\/a><br \/>\n*Silent Cinema<br \/>\nPrimer ciclo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.march.es\/conferencias\/detalle.aspx?p2=775&amp;l=2\" title=\"Melodrama y Star System\">Melodrama y Star-system<\/a><br \/>\nShort films:<\/p>\n<p>1- the irresistable piano.(Alice Guy Blache)<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uGj5CnPJ3QA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2-<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/LaGlu1907\" title=\"The Glue\">The glue<\/a>.(Alice Guy Blache)<\/p>\n<p>Who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhu.es\/cine.educacion\/cineyeducacion\/figurasaliceguy.htm\" title=\"Alice Guy Blache\">Alice Guy Blache<\/a> ?<\/p>\n<p>3- Barney Oldfield\u00b4s race for a life (Mack Sennett)<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IIlxyiolQn8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nBarney Oldfield&#8217;s Race for a Life (1913) is a silent comedy short, directed and produced by Mack Sennett and starring Sennett, Mabel Normand, and Barney Oldfield as himself. It is considered one of the earliest to create the common archetypal silent film plot of a villain tying a young damsel to the tracks of an oncoming locomotive.<br \/>\n[edit]Plot<br \/>\nLegend Barney Oldfield stars in this early Sennett comedy. He races a speeding locomotive to rescue Mabel Normand who plays a damsel in distress tied up on the tracks by evil villain Ford Sterling.<br \/>\nCity Lights &#8211; review (7 minutes)<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SjHIWLuXHVM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nCity Lights (Charlie Chaplin)<\/p>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X_W1tOngo-w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>To Know a bit more about the actor Charlie Chaplin, you can read this short page in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phaidon.com\/store\/cahiers-du-cinema\/charlie-chaplin-9782866426064\/\" title=\"Cashiers du Cinema\">Cashiers du Cinema<\/a> (one of the best magazines about cinema)<br \/>\nAnd if you still want to know  more about the beginning of the Cinema world, learn a bit more about this woman:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masquechicos.com\/foro\/celebrities\/40\/mas-inteligente\/58011\/300\" title=\"Lotte Reiniger\">Lotte Reiniger<\/a><br \/>\n (June 2, 1899 \u2013 June 19, 1981) was a German silhouette animator and film director<br \/>\nAnother great actor is<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/146442912\" title=\"Buster Keaton\"> Buster Keaton<\/a>. Learn more about him in &#8220;The Art of the Gag&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The Flesh and The Devil (1927).Where you can see the first kiss in the cinema history (with Greta Garbo).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rpQK5JX0A7Y\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rpQK5JX0A7Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*An example of a very good Norwegean film is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmarkivet.no\/film\/details.aspx?id=400118\">&#8220;Markens Grode&#8221;<\/a> by Gunnar Sommerfeldt (La bendici\u00f3n de la tierra). \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ferdinandvongalitzien.blogspot.com.es\/2010\/08\/markens-grode-1921-by-gunnar.html\" title=\"Markens Grode (1921)\">Markens Grode<\/a>\u201d was based on a very successful book written by the Norwegian Nobel Prize writer Herr Knut Hamsun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, mime (US: pantomime) and title cards. 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