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A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound , especially with no spoken dialogue . The silent film era lasted from 1895 to 1936 . In silent films for entertainment , the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures , mime and title cards which contain a written indication of the plot or key dialogue . The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself , but because of the technical challenges involved , synchronized dialogue was only made practical in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion amplifier tube and the introduction of the ___MASK63___ system . During silent films , a pianist , theatre organist , or , in large cities , even a small orchestra would often play music to accompany the films . Pianists and organists would either play from sheet music or improvise ; an orchestra would play from sheet music . Mabel Normand ( November 9 , 1892  February 23 , 1930 ) was an American silent film actress , screenwriter , director , and producer . She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in his ___MASK30___ films and , at the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s , had her own movie studio and production company . Onscreen , she appeared in 12 successful films with Charles Chaplin and 17 with Roscoe " Fatty " Arbuckle , sometimes writing and directing ( or co - writing / directing ) movies featuring Chaplin as her leading man . Throughout the 1920s , her name was linked with widely publicized scandals , including the 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor and the 1924 shooting of Courtland S . Dines , who was shot by Normand ' s chauffeur using her pistol . She was not a suspect in either crime . Her film career declined , possibly due to both scandals and a recurrence of tuberculosis in 1923 , which led to a decline in her health , retirement from films , and her death in 1930 at age 37 . ___MASK30___ was an early movie studio founded in Edendale , California ( which is now a part of Echo Park ) on July 4 , 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett ( 1880 - 1960 ) with backing from actor - writer Adam Kessel ( 1866 - 1946 ) and Charles O . Baumann ( 1874 - 1931 ), owners of the New York Motion Picture Company ( founded 1909 ). The company filmed in and around Glendale and Silver Lake , Los Angeles , California for several years , and its films were distributed by the Mutual Film Corporation between 1912 and 1915 . Edgar Livingston Kennedy ( April 26 , 1890  November 9 , 1948 ) was an American comedic film character actor , known as " Slow Burn ". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression , performed very deliberately ; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face , in an attempt to hold his temper . Kennedy is best known for a small role as a lemonade vendor in the Marx Brothers film " Duck Soup ", as well as the many Hal Roach films he appeared in . The Bangville Police ( also known as Bangville Police ) is a 1913 comedy short starring Fred Mace , Mabel Normand and the Keystone Cops ( Mace , Raymond Hatton , Edgar Kennedy , Ford Sterling , and Al St . John ) . The film , notable for being regarded as the seminal Keystone Cops short , was directed by Henry Lehrman . The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act that was successful in vaudeville , on Broadway , and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949 . Five of the Marx Brothers ' thirteen feature films were selected by the ___MASK34___ ( AFI ) as among the top 100 comedy films , with two of them (" Duck Soup " and " A Night at the Opera ") in the top twelve . They are widely considered by critics , scholars , and fans to be among the greatest and most influential comedians of the 20th century . The brothers were included in AFI ' s 100 Years ... 100 Stars list of the 25 greatest male stars of Classic Hollywood cinema , the only performers to be inducted collectively . Al St . John ( September 10 , 1892  January 21 , 1963 ) was an American film actor . In his persona of " Fuzzy ___MASK32___ . Jones ", St . John basically defined the role and concept of " comical sidekick " to cowboy heroes from 1930 to 1951 . The Keystone Cops ( often spelled " Keystone Kops ") were fictional incompetent policemen , featured in silent film comedies in the early 20th century . The movies were produced by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 and 1917 . Fred Mace ( August 22 , 1878  February 21 , 1917 ) was an American actor of the silent era . He appeared in 156 films between 1909 and 1916 . Mace worked for Mack Sennett at ___MASK30___ . Shortly after he left , Roscoe Arbuckle , who had appeared in a few pictures at Keystone with Mace , took over as Sennett ' s lead comedic actor . A film , also called a movie , motion picture , theatrical film or photoplay , is a series of still images which , when shown on a ___MASK37___ , creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon . This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession . The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry . A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera ; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques ; by means of CGI and computer animation ; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects . Roscoe Conkling " Fatty " Arbuckle ( March 24 , 1887  June 29 , 1933 ) was an American silent film actor , comedian , director , and screenwriter . Starting at the ___MASK99___ he eventually moved to ___MASK30___ , where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd . He mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope . Arbuckle was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s , and soon became one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood , signing a contract in 1920 with Paramount Pictures for US $ 1 million ( equivalent to approximately $ in 2017 dollars ). Ford Sterling ( November 3 , 1883  October 13 , 1939 ) was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with ___MASK30___ . One of the ' Big 4 ' he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops . Mack Sennett ( born Michael Sinnott ; January 17 , 1880  November 5 , 1960 ) was a Canadian - born American director and actor and was known as an innovator of slapstick comedy in film . During his ___MASK22___ he was known at times as the " King of Comedy ". His short " Wrestling Swordfish " was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937 . Lemonade is the name for a number of sweetened beverages found around the world , all characterized by lemon flavor . Most lemonade varieties can be separated into two distinct types : cloudy , and clear , each known simply as " lemonade " in countries where dominant . Cloudy lemonade , generally found in North America and India , is a traditionally homemade drink made with lemon juice , water , and sweetened with cane sugar or honey . Found in the ___MASK44___ , Ireland , South Africa , Australia , and New Zealand , clear lemonade is a lemon flavoured carbonated soft drink . Not to be confused with Sprite a lemon - lime flavored , soft drink .