Talk:silent film

RFD discussion: June–July 2019

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silent film

SOP. 2600:1000:B15D:7115:2C12:7429:89BF:760B 18:39, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Keep. Has sufficient individual identity as a set phrase. Mihia (talk) 19:31, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Keep. Inclusion also justifiable as a translation hub.  --Lambiam 20:57, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

This probably has more cultural/historical than lexical importance. But for the sake of argument, our current def is not pure SoP because it doesn't include e.g. a modern film being played back on mute! Equinox ◑ 21:02, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

I used to get a message when my radio link audio went down - "The sound of silence". DonnanZ (talk) 21:14, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Yes, keep, part of the history of cinematography, as well as for reasons given above. DonnanZ (talk) 21:09, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Leaning delete; a white car doesn't really become a blue car even under blue lights. An adjective + noun usually implies that adjective is a more permanent aspect of noun. Moreover, silent movie and silent film are both in fairly common use, and silent photoplay would be attestable.--Prosfilaes (talk) 04:29, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

silent flick is also attestable in the silent movie sense.--Prosfilaes (talk) 04:46, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

I would keep this, and maybe add "especially one made before the invention of the soundtrack" to the definition. SemperBlotto (talk) 08:35, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

I don't think that's true, though; people were doing film with sound from the first days of film (Wikipedia says 1894 and 1900 commercially), just not well enough to make it commercially viable. On the flip side, there have been silent films made up to the modern day, and w:Brand upon the Brain! and w:The Call of Cthulhu (film) aren't any less silent films for being made in the 21st century.--Prosfilaes (talk) 09:38, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

• Keep per WT:THUB. The Czech translation is němý film, literally translated back to English as "mute film" or "dumb film", as "němý" stands for "mute, dumb (not having the power of speech)"; in German, it is Stummfilm where stumm means "mute; dumb" in the first sense althought it means "silent (not speaking)" in the second sense; Polish film niemy and Russian немой фильм are other items that seem to contribute to WT:THUB thanks to the silent vs. mute mismatch. --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:52, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Keep Leasnam (talk) 22:01, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Keep. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:12, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Kept Discussion has run the requisite seven days and there is a clear consensus to keep. Purplebackpack89 16:12, 4 July 2019 (UTC)