Host Gene Kelly takes a nostalgic look at silent films from their earliest beginnings to the introduction of sound with "The Jazz Singer."Host Gene Kelly takes a nostalgic look at silent films from their earliest beginnings to the introduction of sound with "The Jazz Singer."Host Gene Kelly takes a nostalgic look at silent films from their earliest beginnings to the introduction of sound with "The Jazz Singer."
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D.W. Griffith
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as David Wark Griffith)
Renée Adorée
- Self - Actress 'The Big Parade'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Mary Astor
- Self - Adriana della Varnese
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Albert Austin
- Self - Actor 'The Pawnshop'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Agnes Ayres
- Self - Actress 'The Sheik'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Vilma Bánky
- Self - Actress 'Son of the Sheik'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Theda Bara
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
John Barrymore
- Self - Actor 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Lionel Barrymore
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Richard Barthelmess
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Léon Bary
- Self - Actor 'The Three Musketeers'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Wallace Beery
- Self - Her Rascally Guardian
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Henry Bergman
- Self - Actor 'The Pawnshop'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Clara Bow
- Self - Actress 'It'
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
John Bunny
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAlthough Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard are mentioned in conjunction with other big stars of the Silent Era, in reality, although their careers did start in the last years of the period, they did not become stars until after sound films arrived.
- GoofsNarrator Gene Kelly includes Darryl F. Zanuck with the other pioneering studio executives like Jesse L. Lasky, Adolph Zukor, and William Fox. Actually Zanuck did not become a studio executive until the mid-1939s when he formed Twntieth Century Pictures.
- Quotes
- Gene Kelly - Host: Thomas Edison, given principal credit for the invention of the movie camera, assembles the major film companies of the day. They plan to monopolize the film business by eliminating all competition. Harrassed by this newly-formed trust, the independent moviemakers flee west to California - legend says for the sunshine - but the truth of it is most come to be close to the Mexican border to escape lawsuits and injunctions. On the outskirts of Los Angeles they settle in a small rural committee called Hollywood, where the reception is less than enthusiastic.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Great Train Robbery (1903)
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- Hollywoods goldene Jahre - Eine Erinnerung an unvergessene Stars, Teil 1: Der Stummfilm
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- Runtime
- 52m
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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