https://shotonwhat.com/sound-systems/silent-sound-systems The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:05:07 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/downhill-1927 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:24:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/downhill-1927
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Claude L. McDonnell
Bound by honor, a successful schoolboy takes the blame for his roommate's indiscretion, and it's all downhill from there. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/7th-heaven-1927 Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:24:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/7th-heaven-1927
Director: Frank Borzage
Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer, Joseph A. Valentine
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-birth-of-a-nation-1915 Fri, 17 May 2024 00:31:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-birth-of-a-nation-1915
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cinematographer: G.W. Bitzer
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ben-hur-a-tale-of-the-christ-1925 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:55:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ben-hur-a-tale-of-the-christ-1925
Director: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Cinematographer: Clyde De Vinna, René Guissart, Percy Hilburn, Karl Struss, Paul Kerschner
A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-2-1930 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:09:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-2-1930
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson, Karl Freund
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-broadway-melody-1929 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:01:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-broadway-melody-1929
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cinematographer: John Arnold
A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-gold-rush-1925 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:04:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-gold-rush-1925
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cinematographer: Roland Totheroh
A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/city-lights-1931 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:52:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/city-lights-1931
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cinematographer: Gordon Pollock, Roland Totheroh
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-parade-1925 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:50:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-parade-1925
Director: King Vidor, George W. Hill
Cinematographer: John Arnold, Charles Van Enger
A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/numeri-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:05:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/numeri-2013
Director: Gianluca Balla
Cinematographer: Francesco De Gasperis
The boring life of Marta, a girl with a painful past, who is shocked by the daily mysterious notes she finds on her car windscreen. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/nanook-of-the-north-1922 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:28:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/nanook-of-the-north-1922
Director: Robert J. Flaherty
Cinematographer: Robert J. Flaherty
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-trip-to-the-moon-1902 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 15:08:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-trip-to-the-moon-1902
Director: Georges Méliès
Cinematographer: Théophile Michault, Lucien Tainguy
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon. ]]>