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Silent film

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  1. 1
    A film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. countable, retronym, uncountable

    "Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences."

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