Silent movies tend to measure the length in terms of reels (with about 10 minutes per reel) and use intertitles rather than synchronized dialogue to express words, but otherwise, they function ...

The 16-millimeter film is believed to be the only known surviving copy of “The Heart of Lincoln,” a silent movie about the life of President Abraham Lincoln and American life during the Civil War.

Image Ford, center, who was an early Hollywood pioneer and the older ... Historic Films Archive Francis Ford played Lincoln nine times in the silent films he directed, including “The Heart ...

Here, director Tod Browning adds text to his 1928 film "The Big City". Credit: John Kobal Foundation / Getty Images The most common early captions for silent films, known as "intertitles," were ...