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In the meantime live music from vaudeville, ballet, symphony, and opera accompanied silent films, and the earliest days of silent movies saw a variety of combinations of music and image. One combination resulted from films about musical works.
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Dec 18, 2021 · The names of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy (who were household names long into the advent of the "talkies") and many others have become bywords for a well-loved age of film-making. The music on this album remembers that age with fondness and affection.
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of inter- title cards .
During the silent era, songs associated with individual movies were often sold as sheet music, on rolls for player pianos, or on records as a means of promoting the film and capitalizing on it beyond cinema ticket sales.
