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Chaplin eats his boot and dances with bread rolls in the Klondike.

Chaplin caught in the gears of a factory, the last stand of the silent comedy.

A silent, black-and-white French film about the end of silent film; and it won.

A farmer plans to drown his wife and falls back in love with her in the city; Murnau in Hollywood.

Buster Keaton chases a stolen locomotive through the Civil War, doing every stunt himself.

Goldman's "good parts version" of a book that never existed; Westley, Buttercup and Inigo.

The first Best Picture: a silent Great War dogfight epic with real biplanes and Clara Bow.

German Expressionism in painted shadows: a somnambulist, a fairground and the first twist ending.