For the American rock band, see The Silent Comedy.
Harold Lloyd in Safety Last! (1923)
Silent comedy is a style of film, related to but distinct from mime, invented to bring comedy into the medium of film in the silent film era (1900s–1920s) before a synchronized soundtrack which could include talking was technologically available for the majority of films. Silent comedy is still practiced, albeit much less frequently, and it has influenced comedy in modern media as well.
Many of the techniques of silent comedy were borrowed from vaudeville traditions with many silent comedies such as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin getting their start in vaudeville. Silent comedies often place heavy emphasis on visual and physical humors, often including "sight gags", to tell stories and entertain the viewer. Many of these physical gags are exaggerated forms of violence which came to be called "slapstick". The "prat fall", slipping on a banana peel, getting soaked with water, and getting a pie thrown in one's face are all classic examples of slapstick comedy devices.
Silentcomedy is a style of film, related to but distinct from mime, invented to bring comedy into the medium of film in the silent film era (1900s–1920s)...
SilentComedy is an album of solo guitar improvisations by Bill Frisell which was released on the Tzadik label in 2013. In his review for Allmusic, Thom...
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion...
The SilentComedy is an American rock band, known for their folk, rock and roll, and Americana-inspired music. The band was founded in San Diego, California...
derived from classical comedy in theatre. Some of the earliest silent films were slapstick comedies, which often relied on visual depictions, such as sight gags...
Silent Movie is a 1976 American satirical silentcomedy film co-written, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox in summer 1976...
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film...
Merton is a keen student of comedy, particularly the early silent comedians and in 2006, BBC Four broadcast Paul Merton's Silent Clowns, a four-part documentary...
is an Indian film, stage and television actress. She is the part of silentcomedy series, Gutur Gu (2010). Bhavana is the daughter of Hindi cinema actress...
Silent Retreat is an upcoming American romantic comedy film directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson which he co-wrote with Matthew Fogel. It stars Isabella Rossellini...
Gutur Gu is a silentcomedy broadcast on the Indian satellite television channel SAB TV, produced by B. P. Singh and directed by Prabal Barua. It was...
the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. French comedy films are...
are fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between...
Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary, television, and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Comedy horror...
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appeared in many silentcomedy films. One of the most influential film comedians of the silent era, Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and talkies...
film), an American silentcomedy film Number Seventeen, a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock Seventeen (1940 film), an American comedy film Eric Soya's...
from their album Blue Weekend The Last Man on Earth (1924 film), a silentcomedy film The Last Man on Earth (1964 film), an Italian science fiction film...
Silent Story is a 2001 film which was written and directed by Eduardo Cisneros. It is a fantasy-comedy/sci-fi film and was released in November 2001. It...
follow their example. However, long before the Production Code, early silentcomedy film makers produced and attempted several 'gross-out' pictures to the...
(1923), a silentcomedy film by Louis Lumière. Hollywood (British TV series) (1980), a British documentary television series about the silent era Hollywood...
Malegaon Ka Chintu is an Indian silentcomedy series which premiered on SAB TV. The series is produced by Deepti Bhatnagar.The first season premiered...
American actress who appeared in fifteen of Harold Lloyd's classic silentcomedies and eventually married him. The daughter of Howard Beckett Davis, she...
transfer of energy to a normal mode Excitement (film), a lost 1924 silentcomedy by Robert F. Hill Sexual excitation Stimulation or excitation or excitement...
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