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

Sybil Seely was a brunette silent film actress known for her leading roles in Buster Keaton comedies, appearing in five shorts with him in the early 1920s, including One Week and The Boat. She married writer Jules Furthman in 1920 and retired from films in 1922, #silentfilm #1920s #1920sstyle #busterkeaton | Jeff Waters