silent_movie has definitions from the fields of film,performing arts
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[ noun ] (film,performing arts) a movie without a soundtrack

Used in print

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

Each frame comes between the light and the lens and is individually projected on the screen , at the rate , for silent_movies , of 16 frames per second , and , for sound films , 24 frames per second .

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

All about me there was a hectic interplay of meetings taking_place , like abrupt , jerky scenes in old silent_movies , joyous greetings and beginnings , huggings and kissings , enthusiastic forays into the festive night .

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