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The movie theater it's a art that has evolved over time to the point that nowadays, special effects cinema is common, allowing you to create with a maximum realism images difficult to display years ago on the big screen.

A type of cinema that is not frequent nowadays is the silent one. As its name indicates, these types of films lack dialogue and its essential nucleus refers to images.

An original cinema

It is a type of original cinema that shows the essence of an art in constant development. It was in 1988 when the first silent film by Louis Le Prince was shot. It is a very short story that was barely a few seconds long and showed the scene of two people strolling in a pleasant garden.

With reason From this bucolic setting, the film was titled The Roundhay Garden Scene.

Movies with short text

In its origins, silent movies did not have sounds, however, it did have intertitles. Small labels that served to illustrate a message that helped to better understand the content of a scene through a brief text.

Currently, the cinema is an art that stimulates the sight but also, the hearing. However, it should be pointed out that the quality of the silent film image was good. In fact, as there was no sound, the viewer's attention and concentration appreciated greater attention from nuances that can go unnoticed now in the face of so many external stimuli that can produce attention scattered.

The importance of the plane and the image

In the origins of this type of cinema, the shot most commonly used was the wide shot. Most silent movies are shot in black and white. Beyond the fact that cinema has evolved from the point of view of resources technicians available to make higher quality films, it should be pointed out that the essence of cinema has always been the same: telling stories, communicating a concrete argument before the viewer although the way to do it may be different depending on the context and the means used to make movie. The silent film is true to the essence that shows that a picture is worth a thousand words.