Era Of Silent Films

Moving on to the era of silent films which extends from the late nineteenth century, with the earliest work by the Lumière Brothers in France and Edison in America acts became much bigger, crazier and widely spread. Here to clowning had moved over and become big in the silent films. One such name that rose to the top during this era is Charlie Chaplin who took the world by storm with his slapstick comedy. During the Silent movie era, comedy was big and people loved it because it was slapstick comedy which is exaggerated physical comedy and sight gags. People liked watching this because they enjoyed seeing comedians pushing the boundaries such as jumping off moving trains or falling from moving cars and this was during an era, before CGI was a thing like it is now, so these amazing performances were done in real-time, but the people who did this need to have safe planning on how it will be done, great amounts of physical skill, and lots of courage. Another well know artist during the silent era of movies was Buster Keaton and one of the movies he stared in was called Steamboat Bill, …show more content…
The front of the house was put on a hinge and they performed this stunt by having Keaton putting a nail in the ground to mark his position of standing to know where it was safe for him in front of the house also the window that was going to fall down on Keaton was made to give him two inches of space on either side. Before shooting the scene, Keaton had seen a few of his crew members were praying for him and as they were shooting Keaton noticed that the cameraman turned away as the shot started roll since no one knew what was going to happen. Later Buster Keaton called the stunt one of his “greatest thrills,” then added, “I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.” Many crazy stunts like this were being pulled during the silent era of film in order to keep pushing their comedy to the next