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Silent

In movies on January 28, 2010 at 06:56

Who never laughed or shed tears while watching a Charles Spencer Chaplin movie? Whenever I happen to watch one of his movies nowadays, I get reminded how dull some of our contemporary pictures are. When I was a teenager, I had the privilege to be able to watch silent movies, every day for two years, in a movie theatre with piano accompaniment. No, I am not that old; the theatre was located in a cinema museum in Europe.

It is sad that younger people will probably never really enjoy these films as now they are used to fast paced movies and have a decreasing attention span.

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