Silent majority

“If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all,” remarks Kathy Selden about movies after first meeting silent film star Don Lockwood in the beginning of Singin’ in the Rain (Singin’ in the Rain 17:38). While Kathy was slightly off base when saying that all movies are the same, movies belonging to the same genre often do share certain conventions which author Bernard F. Dick discusses in his book Anatomy of Film and Tim Dirks confirms in his assessment of the genre for the American Movie Classics Company

Silent Spring writing piece. Lis San Emeterio Silent Spring writing piece. Lis San Emeterio If you haven't read the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, you're missing out on an informative journey about pesticides and the effects that it has on the human body, on animals, and the reason why insecticides, pesticides, and all other sorts of chemicals have become such a controversial issue in our world. Rachel Carson eloquently wrote 50 years ago about how humans are the reason that pesticides

with the sound on disc technology, but the majority of the industry agreed that sound directly recorded to film was

concept of moving-images alone was believed to be an invention without a future, and was initially thought of only as an amusement. However, the majority of these people only criticize what they do not understand, in this situation it is the fear of technological advancement in film. In statements made by Alfred Hitchcock to François Truffaut, he claims “that silent film was the

were much shorter, and were without sound. In this silent film era, no star shined brighter than that of Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin is without a doubt the biggest name of film during this or possibly any era. In fact, Chaplin should be considered the greatest influence of the film industry in the 1920s because of his fame in silent film, his career as a director, his controversial satire, and the popularity of The Tramp. When one thinks of silent films most likely that person thinks about is Charlie

The dominant theme of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is the powerful and detrimental impact humans have on the natural world. Carson 's main argument is that pesticides have harmful effects on the environment and lead to a loss of biodiversity and quality of life. Carson uses the pesticide DDT throughout the book as she examines the effects of pesticides throughout the United States. Though the majority of the book is focused on the effects of pesticides on our ecosystem processes, she also touches

co-written by Charles Brackett. The film was named after the boulevard that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California. Film stars William Holden as Joseph C. Gillis, an unsuccessful screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film actress who drags him into her fantasy world where she dreams of making a great comeback to the big screen, with Erich von Stroheim as Max Von Mayerling, Norma’s devoted servant. Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, and Jack Webb also make an

Singer allows it to hold an important place in film history for being among the first synchronized sound films. It is credited for ending the silent film era and pioneering new and creative ways to tell stories. However, silent films would still be made way into the 1930s, and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) is sometimes described as the last silent film. People are often surprised to learn that The Jazz Singer was not the first film to use sound. 1926’s Don Juan was the first feature-length

In the initial scene in Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, the tone is set with an establishing shot of a large crowd accompanied by a score of trumpets. Following this shot, a title card says “To the people of this city we donate this monument; ‘Peace and Prosperity’.” (Chaplin, City Lights). This title card establishes what a large, authoritative man, presumably the mayor, is relaying to the enthusiastic crowd below him. As he speaks, all that the film’s audience hears are inarticulate buzzing noises

He feels that those who belong to a democracy are essentially machines controlled by the majority, lacking in ability to make choices for themselves. He then goes farther to compare the majority to slaves, saying, "When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished . . . . They will