Throwback Thursday- Silent Films:The Beginning of Hollywood

As the title mentions, silent films really were the beginning of an era, the Hollywood movie era, that continues on even now. The "silent era" started around 1894, although before that time (around 1877 and 1880) Eadweard Muybridge had created a "primary proto-movie". In addition, a two second film (the first narrative film) was created by Louis Le Prince, which composed of a scene of people walking in Oakwood streets garden. The "film" was entitled Roundhay Garden Scene. It doesn't seem like much, but for the people of the past, it was something that they had never encountered before; it was new and interesting. The "silent era" ended in the late 1920s with the release of "talkies", films with sound and actual conversation.