By then the studios wanted to distance themselves from the silent era and most of its stars.

We’ll start at noon by highlighting cinematic foremothers, and their reflections on familial consciousness in the silent era.

But in recent years several interviewers tracked her down, keen to tap into her memories as one of the last surviving stars of the silent era.

Even her films, though never likely to be considered classics of the silent era, are analysed for what they can tell us about contemporary cinema techniques.

At this period he was involved in producing short comedy films which harked back to the cinema's silent era, eschewing dialogue and relying on sound effects and mime.