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Silent Screen

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

CHAPLIN
Charlie Chaplin's 'The Tramp' first appeared in 1914 and became the most recognised screen character in the world within just a few years.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
INTERTITLE
Those elegant title cards, intertitles, were often hand-lettered by specialist artists, and some studios employed whole departments just to design them.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
KEYSTONE
Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios launched in 1912 and gave the world the gloriously chaotic Keystone Kops, whose car chases set the template for screen comedy.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TALKIES
When 'talkies' arrived with The Jazz Singer in 1927, several beloved silent stars found their careers ended almost overnight, their voices simply didn't match their image.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Silent Screen: a free large-print word search

Silent Screen, a free, large-print word search celebrating the stars and slapstick of Hollywood's most magical, wordless decade.

About Silent Screen

Before sound transformed Hollywood, the silver screen spoke through gesture, shadow, and light. A pianist filled the theatre as Charlie Chaplin shuffled into frame, Buster Keaton kept his famous stone face, and Mary Pickford charmed a generation into buying tickets twice over. Studios like Keystone and Biograph cranked out reels at a furious pace, and audiences left the dark of the picture house blinking, dazzled and delighted in equal measure.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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