2WMN
Lulu's Big Date
Adios Nonino
During the Silent Era, films were accompanied by a random selection chosen by the local organ or piano player. Rarely was music composed to accompany a silent film; Charlie Chaplin being the exception.
Most audiences were at the mercy of the taste of their organist! Only much later was music composed to accompany the classics . . . the wonderful soundtracks we have today to films like Metropolis or Pandora’s Box were only commissioned in the 1980s.
While silent film is loved by many filmmakers, few would dare to work in the silent genre. If a filmmaker makes a Silent film, they make it early in their careers as filmmakers, then abandon silence for more conventional storytelling methods. The exploration stops, often from fear of obscurity.
The silent films that are presented here represent an attempt to consider the musical score at the stage when the story is being concieved. Silents still have much to offer.
Silent film is a type of film with no synchronized noted audio, especially without spoken any dialogue. In this film system, the entertainment of audience is given through silent actions, gestures, and titles. Movies with recorded sound is almost as old as movie itself, but because of the challenge of silent dialogue system and complex difficulties engaged, synchronized dialogue for silent film, was practically made in the late 1920s, with [...]
Angie Harmon plays detective Jane Rizzoli on the hit TNT show “Rizzoli & Isles.” The Dallas native and former model, who got her break in “Baywatch Nights”, visitors insurance USA is happily married to ex-NFL player Jason Sehorn, the mother of three girls, and a proud Republican. Harmon spoke to Fox411.com about her uncanny resemblance to Ali McGraw, being a working mom and the parties she would throw in the White House if she was the first lady!