Filmic Eco-warnings and Television: Rolf de Heer’s Epsilon (1995) and Dr. Plonk (2007) by D. Bruno Starrs

“…But rather than 'shouting' the message that a messianic hero-figure can save the world as in his first eco-politically correct film, it is argued that de Heer has subsequently made a silent film in which the saviour fails: the eponymous Dr. …”
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Facts, Fictions, and Fascism: A Life of Actor Mary Taviner (1909-1972) by Michael St John-McAlister

“…Despite an acting career spanning both silent film and talkies, as well as London and regional theatre, Mary Taviner was not a household name. …”
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Does film obey the laws of the mind? - Munsterberg, cognitivism and the films of Hussain Haniff / Norman Yusoff by Yusoff, Norman

“…This is to ascertain the relevance of Munsterberg's arguments which were put forth during the silent film era in relation to the study of Malay films directed by Hussain Haniff. …”
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The Development of Discourse and Morphological Features in L2 Narratives: A Study with Classroom Spanish-Speaking Learners of French by Maria Kihlstedt, Jesús Izquierdo

“…They also generated two written narratives during silent-film retelling tasks. The cross-sectional sample selection was based on the learners’ test scores and the results of parametric statistical analyses. …”
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Acting imperially: race, performance, and cinema in interwar Britain by Casey, J

“…It argues firstly that silent film performance is received as a racialised element of film form in Britain; race is ‘read’ by British audiences into movements, gestures, and expressions. …”

Hollywood en los relatos pulp de Robert Leslie Bellem = Hollywood in Robert Leslie Bellem’s pulp stories. by José Ismael Gutiérrez

“…So this irreverent detective’s mysteries are also linked to the genre category which we call "Hollywood narrative", which emerges over the course of the silent film era. In this sense, the work researches the types of characters that appear in these short stories -film stars, stuntmen, producers, agents, extras, an endless array of glamorous female starlets…-, all of whom are depicted by an autodiegetic narrator (that is, the detective-protagonist) in a clearly non-idealized and funny fashion. …”
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Punktnedslag i det historiske kinopublikummets opplevelser 1900-1930 by Mona Pedersen

“…The article focuses on the silent film era, and the empirical material consists of extracts from nationwide collections of memories from everyday life in Norway collected in 1964 and 1981. …”
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YouTube come medium generazionale. Figure, pratiche, casi by Alberto Brodesco

“…Although it hosts silent films, Calimero episodes and MTV music videos, YouTube is often described as a “generational medium”. …”
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Remixologia, live performance e software culture: Remix the Cinema. Intervista a Luca Acito e Alberto Casati by Mirko Lino

“…The main objects of Remix the Cinema are silent films, especially those of the 1920s. Cinema masterpieces as The Cabinet of Dr. …”
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La música en las representaciones de lo latinoamericano en los primeros filmes hollywoodenses con sonido incorporado (1927-1932) by Juan Carlos Poveda

“…The rapid transition from the so-called “silent films” to the “sound films”, that took place in the late 1920s, raises questions and speculations related to the decisions and negotiations faced by musical directors, composers and arrangers of Hollywood when defining how to musically characterize Latin America. …”
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“Such is the Custom in VGIK.” Annotated Catalogue of Early Films from the Archive of Irina Zhigalko (part 3) by Krasnova, G. V

“…The films that have been included in the annotated filmographic sheets published in Telekinet cannot be found in the well-known catalogues of silent films published in Russia to date. The published films are provided with annotations that allow you to get an impression of the topics and genres that are in demand among the audience. …”
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“Such is the Custom in VGIK.” Annotated Catalogue of Early Films from the Archive of Irina Zhigalko (part 2) by Krasnova, G. V

“…The films that have been included in the annotated filmographic sheets published in Telekinet cannot be found in the well-known catalogues of silent films published in Russia to date. The published films are provided with annotations that allow you to get an impression of the topics and genres that are in demand among the audience. …”
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Films “of Eastern Life” of the 1920s in the Light of Intercultural Communication among the Peoples of the USSR by Elena V. Dianova

“…The “inauthentic” portrayal of the East did not resonate with viewers and film critics. Nevertheless, silent films of the 1920s introduced the ethno-confessional characteristics of peoples, their history, traditional way of life, mores, and customs. …”
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A Review of Deep Learning Algorithms and Their Applications in Healthcare by Hussein Abdel-Jaber, Disha Devassy, Azhar Al Salam, Lamya Hidaytallah, Malak EL-Amir

“…Applications include virtual assistants such as Alexa and Siri, facial recognition, personalization, natural language processing, autonomous cars, automatic handwriting generation, news aggregation, the colorization of black and white images, the addition of sound to silent films, pixel restoration, and deep dreaming. As a review, this paper aims to categorically cover several widely used deep learning algorithms along with their architectures and their practical applications: backpropagation, autoencoders, variational autoencoders, restricted Boltzmann machines, deep belief networks, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, generative adversarial networks, capsnets, transformer, embeddings from language models, bidirectional encoder representations from transformers, and attention in natural language processing. …”
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The role of the fool and the carnivalesque in post-1945 German prose fiction on the Third Reich by Aston, R, Aston, R.M.

“…In <em>Der Kinoerzähler</em> Hofmann uses Karl, a Fool-figure who narrates silent films, to encourage the development of critical faculties which combat the fatalism and authoritarianism that hamper social change. …”

Visual recognition of human communication by Chung, J

“…Solving this problem opens up a host of applications, such as transcribing archival silent films, or resolving multi- talker simultaneous speech, but most importantly it helps to advance the state of the art in speech recognition by enabling machines to take advantage of the multi-modal nature of human communications. …”