Did silent films have any sound?

Answer 1

Pretty much every theater showing silent films had an instrument, usually a piano, playing music during each film. Usually the player would just improvise music based on what appeared on the screen, sometimes a film maker would write music for the player to play. As one studio exec noted, there never was a truly "silent" film.

Because doing the latter meant more control over (and money from) his films, Chaplin often wrote musical scores for the films he directed, produced, starred in, and wrote the screenplay for.

Answer 2

Theaters where silent films where shown usually had musicians play as the film was running. A really good musician would be able to play music that went well with the action. But the films themselves had no sound recorded for them at all.

Answer 3

Yes he did, everyone in the entire world should hear his speech in The Great Dictator.

Answer 4

Yes. Sound began to appear in motion pictures in the late 1920s. Silent films, while still being made, would quickly disappear soon after.

Answer 5

Yes, but not until 1940. His frst talking movie was The Great Dictator (1940)

Answer 6

From "Making a Living" (1914) to "Modern Times" (1936) which was sort of a hybrid silent, there are 81 silent films.

Answer 7

"City Lights" (1931) was his first sound film.

Answer 8

It was only in 1940 that he made his first talkie, The Great Dictator, his masterpiece satirising Hitler.