A Pictorial History Of The Silent Screen

Authored by film historian Daniel Blum and published by Grosset & Dunlap, A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen is a monumental photographic chronicle documenting the rise, golden era, and peak years of silent cinema. The clean title page features bold, dimensional art-deco block typography reading "SILENT SCREEN" alongside author credit and publisher imprints. Covering the dawn of moving images from 1893 through the arrival of talkies in the late 1920s, the volume offers an exhaustive visual treasury of early movie stars, classic film stills, legendary directors, and studio lore.