Comedy’s Modification Within Silent Film - Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin

Posted on July 29, 2010
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During the 1910s, popular comedy shorts preceded more esteemed features. By the 1920s, however, comedy developed into a mass-observed genre of feature lengths with stars like Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin. Silent film, by just referring to its title, suggested a dependence on physical action-slapstick-for comedians.

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