A movie without a soundtrack.
A film without sound where dialogue text and explanations are shown on title cards.
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Examples for "silents "
Examples for "silents "
1 Lean was raised on silents , Spielberg was raised on Lean; both men were born unto cinema.
2 Bergman grew up in the first heyday of Scandinavian cinema, which flourished alongside American and Soviet silents .
3 The program consisted of three half-hour silents .
4 Dove was one of the most popular actresses of her day, starring in more than 40 silents and talkies.
1 It's an old silent movie trick and the Marx brothers used it.
2 I felt like I was watching a silent movie through a cataract-clouded lens.
3 I am screaming without sound, as if in a silent movie .
4 Chaplin had been the biggest star in Hollywood's silent movie era.
5 Instead of commercials, the projector is playing an old silent movie .
1 I had seen cowboys only in the rare silent picture shows they played back home.
2 If Vegas touts are quoting correctly it'll be the first silent picture to win Best Picture since Wingsin 1929.
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 .
4 Now it seemed absolutely to yell bank-holiday vulgarity and impropriety at the silent pictures .
5 You used to be in silent pictures .
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 .
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This collocation consists of: Translations for silent picture