Characteristics of Silent Films

- They're silent
- The acting is very sarcastic to convey emotion
- Made before the advent of audio film and audio recorders
- Many actors were stage actors before they were in the movies
- Form the first films in the 1896 until the advent of the Vitaphone in 1927 all of them were silent
- Some of the major silent film actors were: Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Greta Garbo, Max Linder, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Lillian Gish, William S. Hart, and Louise Brooks
-Music was often played with the films, by a live player