Theatre organ
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A theatre organ, also known as a theater organ or cinema organ in the United Kingdom, is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films from the 1900s to the 1920s.
Console of the 3/13 Barton Theatre Pipe Organ at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre
Theater Organ Console
Wurlitzer at the Musical Museum in London, showing the Art Deco framing lighting panels showcasing the organ console
The offices of the Wurlitzer factory in New York, previously known as the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory.
Silent film
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A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound. Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed
Theatre organ
…A theatre organ, also known as a theater organ or cinema organ in the United Kingdom, is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films from the 1900s to the 1920s. Theatre organs have horseshoe-shaped arrangements of stop tabs (tongue-shaped switches) above and around the instrument's…
A still from 1921's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of the highest-grossing silent films
Aziza Amir in Laila (1927)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) used stylized inter-titles.
Lillian Gish, the "First Lady of the American Cinema", was a leading star in the silent era with one of the longest careers—1912 to 1987.