silents
- noun
- /ˈsaɪlənts/
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películas mudas
- That's Lillian Gish the Great, the famous silent film star.
Birth of a Nation is like this radical propaganda film, black and white, silent, promoting the KKK.
- Birth of a Nation is like this radical propaganda film, black and white, silent, promoting the KKK.
- He was one of the actors who made the transition when they went from silent to talkies.
- It was almost as if silent films became obsolete almost instantly, almost instantly.
- And I'd also like to do a silent film where I just don't talk because I, I just prefer to not talk in films.
Examples
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So it's about transitioning from silent film to film or to with sound.
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He was one of the actors who made the transition when they went from silent to talkies.
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Well, I'm not used to doing too many characters because it's mostly silent films, so it's mostly just doing face.
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He's from the old days, from the silent films he started.
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Take for example Abel Ganses famous silent film Jacuzz released in April.
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Many classic silents, such as 'The Birth of a Nation', still influence filmmakers today.
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During film history, the silents captivated audiences with their expressive performances and visual storytelling.
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The museum has a special exhibition dedicated to famous silents from the 1920s.
Synonyms
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3.2
A film with no recorded sound or spoken words
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6.1
A movie made without recorded sound that often has live music
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
silents = silent (semi-transparent) = silent + s
Formally 'silent' + plural '-s' is clear, but the noun use 'silents' meaning 'silent films' is a conversational nominalization whose specific reference may not be immediately obvious to all learners.
Etymology
Silents comes from silent, which comes from the old Latin word silēre meaning 'be quiet', and you can see the same idea in the English word silence. So, silents are films that are 'quiet' — movies made before sound was added.