SILENT CINEMA POSTERS

Nita Naldi - Blood and Sand (1922)

THE SILENTS

'The strangeness of this world.. devoid of colour and sound (doesn't give) the movement of life but a sort of mute spectre.. 

Everything moves, comes to life, and suddenly, having reached the edge of the screen, disappears who knows where... 

Nothing but shadows, spectres, phantoms... You end up being disturbed and depressed by this silent and grey life...

 you forget where you are. Strange ideas invade your mind; you are less and  less concious...'

-MAXIM GORKY-

'We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! There once was a time in this business when I had the 

eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears 

of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK!' 

-SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)-

*

~  UNDER CONSTRUCTION  ~