| LC control no. | gf2011026575 |
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| Thesaurus/term list | lcgft |
| Genre/Form term | Silent films |
| Variant(s) | Silent motion pictures |
| See also | Motion pictures |
| Scope note | Films produced in the early days of the motion picture industry before the advent of talking films. |
| Found in | Films by genre, 1993 (silent film: the term is self-explanatory as it applies to a film without sound track or to a film of the "silent era," that is, up to 1928 when sound pictures became commercially available. However, silent films were never strictly silent but were usually accompanied by music; practically ceased to exist by 1929) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh2007005588 |
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