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The Early Silents 1901-1912 What modern audiences would recognize as film has been around since the end of the 19th century. Synchronized sound wasn't an option, the material started in black and white, and the frame rate was a little clunky to the 21st century eye, but we know a movie when we see one. It took less than ten years for people to start playing around with size in this new medium; a full five years before the first feature film was released. It's impossible to say how often size was featured in these early works; volatile film stock and studio indifference led to thousands of films being lost. Many shorts didn't have a formal script to archive (if anyone even thought to preserve it) and synopses were frequently light on detail if available at all. The fact that so many silent size films still exist says something. That there were dozens more lost to time and record. That the ones we have today were so beloved they were preserved. That there was an interest in this