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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.

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              Examples for "silent film"
              Examples for "silent film"
              1
              Tim Dodd accompanies the silent film 'Safety Last' in the Dunedin Film Festival.
              Radio NZ
              2
              But when the ensemble started performing, the silent film musical scene hardly existed.
              Wired
              3
              It started financing Hollywood movies in the silent film era of the 1920s.
              Reuters
              4
              Mozart's The Magic Flute has been radically reimagined with animation and silent film.
              Radio NZ
              5
              There was his Film made in 1964, with silent film star Buster Keaton.
              The Irish Times
              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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