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Musicians formed the Music Defense League in 1930 to fight against movies with sound. They worried that without people playing music live at the movies, like in the silent era, they would lose jobs so they ran an expensive campaign arguing about how robots were taking over the world.
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Diana Serra Cary, aka Baby Peggy, was one of the last living film stars of the Silent Era of Hollywood until her death in Feb 2020, working 8 hours a day 6 days a week as a child star. She later became a silent film historian and advocate for child actors’ rights.
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When the Australian film The Story of the Kelly Gang (the first-ever full length narrative feature film) was released in 1906, the screenings of the silent film were accompanied by live sound effects, including blank cartridges as gunshots and coconut shells beaten together to simulate hoofbeats.
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Early Russian silent movies often had two endings — a tragic one for the home market and a happy one for export. Conversely, foreign movies at the time often were made with a happy ending for the home audience and a tragic ending, specifically for Russia.
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Silent movie actors were initially not given on-screen credit for their films, as studio bosses feared it would make the performers too popular, and able to demand higher wages. Actress Florence Lorence was the first to get one in 1910.
The silent horror film “The Unknown” (1927) was missing for many years in the archives of Cinematheque Francaise because they had hundreds of film cans marked “unknown”.