29K views · 760 reactions | From landmark technical innovations, to trailblazers behind the screen, silent films remain the cornerstone of cinema today and we're thrilled to return to #SilentSundayNights starting this weekend. Whether you're an silents expert or still finding your voice, join TCM host Jacqueline Stewart as we explore the stories that don't need dialogue to speak volumes. It all starts this Sunday at 12:45am ET. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM | Facebook

The Silent Films Era The term silent film is a retronym—a term created to retroactively distinguish something from later developments. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were variously referred to as the "talkies", "sound films", or "talking pictures". The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is older than film (it was suggested almost immediately after Edison introduced the phonograph in 1877), and some early experiments had the projectionist manually adj