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Meanings of silent picture in English

Catalan
pel·lícula muda
Spanish
película muda

A movie without a soundtrack.

pel·lícula muda

A film without sound where dialogue text and explanations are shown on title cards.

Usage of silent picture in English
1
I had seen cowboys only in the rare silent picture shows they played back home.
Beautiful assassin
2
If Vegas touts are quoting correctly it'll be the first silent picture to win Best Picture since Wingsin 1929.
The Irish Times
3
The bright scratch of shells in the black sky and the occasional brief flare of an explosion looked like fireworks in an old silent picture.
The Young Lions
4
Now it seemed absolutely to yell bank-holiday vulgarity and impropriety at the silent pictures.
Flames
5
You used to be in silent pictures.
The Irish Times
6
To the east and far below lay land so desolate that movie companies used the landscape to duplicate the Sahara in early silent pictures.
The cactus eaters: how I lost my mind-and almost found myself-on...
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