Introduction. The culmination of silent cinema -- Some special skills. Writers and photographers / Lewis Jacobs. Director of Photography / James Wong Howe. Silents were never silent / Gaylord Carter -- Freedoms, controls, and images. Films of the postwar decade / Lewis Jacobs. Early attempts to control / Ruth Inglis. The first year in Hollywood, 1922-1923 / Will H. Hays. The twenties / Molly Haskell. Inventions remaking leisure / Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd -- Some shining examples. Tol'able David / Robert E. Morsberger. Miss Lulu Bett / Tom Shales. Manslaughter / Ronald Bowers. The marriage circle / Rob Edelman. Dancing mothers / Arthur Lennig. The Grand Duchess and the waiter / Audrey Kupferberg.
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