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• the 1925 silent film The Air Mail was filmed in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada?
• the 1909 silent short film Wilbur Wright und seine Flugmaschine (pictured) is considered to be the first-ever use of aerial movie photography?
• the 1905 silent film Rescued by Rover was so popular that it had to be re-shot twice because the negatives wore out in order to meet the demand for prints?
• in 1922, Erich von Stroheim's silent film Foolish Wives was the most expensive ever produced?
• the 1927 American silent film The Cat and the Canary was directed by German expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni?
• the 1930 silent film A Daughter of the Congo was billed as a “talking, singing, dancing picture” although it only contained a single short sound sequence?
• the scandalous murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor has never been solved?
• the 1930 film Tom Sawyer was the third screen adaptation of Mark Twain's novel, following silent versions in 1907 and 1917?
• the 1927 silent film The Scar of Shame is an early example of a "race movie," in which a feature film was made by a black cast exclusively for black audiences?
• former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards?
• as a child, Swedish opera singer Hjördis Schymberg and her four sisters performed live music to accompany silent films?
• benshi were the people who narrated Japanese silent films until the 1930's?
• silent film star Clara Williams (pictured), known for her "forty famous frocks", appeared in more than 100 films between 1910 and 1918?
• silent film comedian Shorty Hamilton died in 1925 when his automobile crashed into a steam shovel in Hollywood?
• Robert Hood Bowers' score for the lost silent film A Daughter of the Gods was called in 1921 the most memorable up to that time?
• Unė Babickaitė, a Lithuanian actress who appeared in American silent films, was sentenced to five years in a Soviet gulag?
• Bed and Sofa is a 1927 Soviet silent film that satirizes polygamous relationships amongst the Moscow working poor?
• A Victim of the Mormons (ad pictured) is a 1911 Danish silent film that initiated a decade of anti-Mormon films in the United States?
• Vera Kholodnaya, the first Russian silent film star, was rumoured to have been poisoned by the French Ambassador with whom she reportedly had an affair and who believed that she was a spy for the Bolsheviks?
• Native American actor and director James Young Deer and his wife were an "influential force" in the production of one-reel Westerns during the early silent film era?