61. The actor grew rich performing in plays, reviews, silent films and even a few talkies, sometimes playing both male and female parts in the same production. 62. The film also played with our cinematic perceptions of the West, beginning with a silent film and ending with that famous freeze shot. 63. The Germans showed a particularly morbid fascination with the theme of man-made life in their silent films. 64. The grainy black-and-white silent films that make up the visual center of the movie were taken by the Nazis and have been kept in a Warsaw archive. 65. The orchestras that accompanied silent films often played an operatic overture before the show. 66. The program blends personal remembrances of those interviewed with clips of silent films. 67. The present show includes a two-hour loop of experimental silent films, mainly sponsored by Levy himself. 68. The Silent Movie Theater shows silent films six nights a week. 69. The silent film clips show men repairing propellers, tires and engine parts in the bowels of the ships. 70. This was like a shrine for silent film. |