Even sampled more widely, silent films do have their problems when viewed from a century’s distance.
And the world of silent films is a brutally racist one, in which Black people and other minority groups are all but nonexistent except as passing figures of fun.
But it can be surprising how much of the silent work still holds up.
Silent films vividly show us otherwise.
The centrality of cooperation and attitude over speech is why the comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were just as funny in their silent films as later, when we could hear them talk.
Persons:
Erich von Stroheim’s, ” Mrs, Hughes, Miss DuPont, Harold Lloyd, Looney, Bert Williams’s “, ”, Buster Keaton, Chaplin, he’s, isn’t, “, Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese, Cantor, Bow, Thom Scott, Phillips, à, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clara Bow, Gary Cooper
Locations:
Sunset