1.   Boxing films go back to the silent era.

2.   Al had been around a long time, his father was in the silent era.

3.   By common consent the greatest actress of the silent era, Lillian Gish personified that remarkable epoch.

4.   Eroticism and gore have been staples of moviemaking, particularly American moviemaking, since the newborn works of the silent era.

5.   Even back in the silent era moviemakers thrilled their audiences with scenes of nature gone bonkers.

6.   Moviemakers in both England and America plundered the Scott legacy in the long-ago silent era.

7.   Since the dawn of the silent era, success in the movie industry has belonged to those special talents able to merge their creative instincts with canny business sense.

8.   Such work has graced movies since the silent era.

9.   The concept of movie stardom was born during the silent era when producers figured out that audiences wanted to see certain people on the screen and not others.

10.   The film has plot gambits that would have seemed shameless even in the silent era.