The Silent Epoch

The very beginning of the screen film industry started in the Silent Epoch. In other words, technologists managed to record "moving images" on the tape but did not succeed in combining picture and sound. And that was a great problem at the very beginning! Pictures were silent and that was the main reason for screen films not being extremely popular up to the late 1920s when the first talkative or 'talkies" were invented. That was the very reason why cinema companies had to spend great sums hiring musicians or entire symphonic orchestras that made good profit at the same time. Thus, for the first 30 years of screen film history, movies remained to be silent, accompanied by either musicians or speakers that told stories of the subsequent flick beforehand.

Complete Silent Epoch lasted for about 25 years, giving rise to the so-called 'silent' films. In spite of the numerous amount of problems and discomforts that were caused by the absence of sound, there are a lot of world-known screen film bestsellers that still compose the wealth of general human culture. One of these masterpieces is a series of screen films made and produced by Charles Chaplin. He is justly considered the founder of present-day comedy and one of the richest show men of that time.

Finally, in the late 1920s, 'sound' film was introduced with 24 frames per second chosen as the slowest speed that permitted sufficient sound quality.