Motion Picture Story Magazine / Greenwood Press / First National / The Motion Picture Patents Company / Fox Film Corporation / Photoplay / The General Film Company / Paramount Pictures / Paramount / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Lasky Company / /
Continent
America / /
Country
France / United States / /
Currency
cent / /
Event
M&A / Movie Release / Reorganization / /
Facility
American Cinema / University of California Press / /
IndustryTerm
tight network / fan magazines / stylistic device / real estate holdings / /
Movie
Modern Times / The Jazz Singer / The Birth of a Nation / /
Organization
Marymount University / University of California Press / /
Person
Joseph Schenck / Christopher P. Jacobs / Lillian Gish / Adolph Zukor / Douglas Fairbanks / Mary Pickford / Carl Laemmle / Theda Bara / Rudolph Valentino / Elizabeth / Harold Lloyd / Sergei Eisenstein / Peter Krämer / Lee Krämer / Marcus Loew / Norma Talmadge / Tonya Howe / Mack Sennet / /
The Silent Era The silent film era extends from the late nineteenth century, with the earliest work by the Lumière Brothers in France and Edison in America, into the early 1930s, when silent film gave way to “talkies.