silents
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a movie without a soundtrack
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Film speed is often a vexed issue among scholars and film buffs in the presentation of silents today, especially when it comes to DVD releases of restored films ; the 2002 restoration of Metropolis (Germany, 1927) may be the most fiercely debated example.
The innovative three-strip technicolor process introduced in the mid-30s was costly and fraught with limitations, and color would not have the same prevalence in film as it did in the silents for nearly four decades.
In fact, color was far more prevalent in silents than in sound films for decades.
Sound films emphasized black history and benefited different genres more so than silents did.