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Yeah and additionally, most silent movies were garbage. Even the good ones are total crap by modern standards.

Who would have watched them again? A few weirdos and only a tiny random subset chosen by random criteria. Might as well watch the 25% that was preserved and is waay too high anyway.

Some things must just go away.



Some did reach the same production values as modern films - but Silent Film was functionally a completely different art form than Talkies.


Hot take: Those TikTok meme slideshows or compilations of images with music over them? Where the music isn't synced to anything?

Silent movies.


Silent Movies did often have semi-synchronized music.




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