Robert A. Dillon (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert A. Dillon (13 February 1889 - 28 November 1944) was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for 81 films between 1914 and 1937. He also directed eight films between 1916 and 1927. He was born in New York and died in Los Angeles, California. A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. In entertainment silent films the acting and dialogue is commuted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made practical in the late 1920s with the perfection of the audion amplifier tube and the introduction of the Vitaphone system. After The Jazz Singer in 1927, "talkies" became more and more commonplace and within a decade silent films essentially disappeared.