The Silent Films Era The term silent film is a retronym—a term created to retroactively distinguish something from later developments. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were variously referred to as the "talkies", "sound films", or "talking pictures". The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is older than film (it was suggested almost immediately after Edison introduced the phonograph in 1877), and some early experiments had the projectionist manually adj

821K views · 5.2K reactions | Have you seen this silent classic? How about this scene? Today, 1923- The silent film classic "Saftey Last" is released.The film stars Harold Lloyd and contains some of the most memorable stunts in film history. #Safteylast #haroldlloyd #silentfilm #earlyfilm #clocktower #clock #Silentfilmstar #earlyfilm #silentcinema #cinema #thisdayinfilmhistory #filmhistory | This Day in Film History | Facebook