21. He knew silent movies well and perhaps had been influenced by their emphasis on dramatic moments and even, possibly, by expressionist cinema. 22. He says there are now dozens of ensembles scattered throughout the country that score silent movies. 23. He played the piano at silent movies shown on campus and led seminars on Charlie Chaplin. 24. He studied film making in Paris and was an assistant cameraman for several silent movies in Berlin. 25. He tells how people came to see the first silent movies again and again, agog at the movement, unbothered by lack of plot or story. 26. He would lie on a couch piled with daughters, sharing a half-gallon of ice cream and watching silent movies. 27. Her father, Walter Kingsley, was a writer and Broadway press agent, and her mother, Alma Hanlon, was an actress in silent movies. 28. It cleverly uses music of the era as an essential component, just as live music was crucial to the enjoyment of silent movies. 29. It reminded me of a grand scene from some old silent movie. 30. It must be assumed that silent movies would also be protected. |