6.4K views · 464 reactions | Rachel and the Stranger is a 1948 American Western film starring Loretta Young, William Holden, and Robert Mitchum. The Norman Foster-directed film was one of the few to address the role of women in the pioneer west, as well as portray early America's indentured servant trade. It was based on the Howard Fast short story "Rachel". While the film had a low budget, it was RKO's most successful film that year. | Because We Love Classic Cinema | Facebook

1.3K views | Go Behind the Look of 'American Primeval' with cinematographer Jacques Jouffret, ASC. See how wide lenses and constant movement pull viewers into the brutal, unforgiving world of early America, capturing raw intensity in every frame. #ShotonRED #VRAPTOR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMvQu5U5DY | RED Digital Cinema | Facebook

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The Silent Films Era The term silent film is a retronym—a term created to retroactively distinguish something from later developments. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were variously referred to as the "talkies", "sound films", or "talking pictures". The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is older than film (it was suggested almost immediately after Edison introduced the phonograph in 1877), and some early experiments had the projectionist manually adj