Introduction : a doomed art's glorious last days -- At the precipice : Mary Pickford and My best girl -- "The maddest idea in the world" : Gloria Swanson, Raoul Walsh, and Sadie Thompson -- Tramp on a tightrope : Charlie Chaplin and The circus -- "A lyricist of light and shadow" : Josef von Sternberg, The last command, and The docks of New York -- "The highest reaches of the form" : King Vidor and The crowd -- The end of an amazing run : Harold Lloyd and Speedy -- In a blaze of windswept glory : Buster Keaton and Steamboat Bill, Jr. -- A star is born : Joan Crawford and Our dancing daughters -- "Astonishing elegance" : William Wellman, Louise Brooks, Wallace Beery, and Beggars of life -- "Time was his; he owned it" : Erich von Stroheim and The wedding march -- "I have a special confidence in you" : Lillian Gish, Victor Sjöström, and The wind -- Partners in Perversity : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and West of Zanzibar -- "To reach for the moon one last time" : Douglas Fairbanks and The iron mask -- Twenty-eight other notable U.S. Silent and hybrid films released during the long 1928 -- Afterthoughts : requiem and reemergence.
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