Hi Sarah! Well, the Silent Era is the whole period of film-making (1890s- late 1920s) when they only had visuals to work with,
since they have not yet invented anything that would synchronize sound and picture. Sometimes, they would use live music
at the theaters, but the movie reels in themselves are all without audio, thus are called 'silent films'.
When they finally found a way to include sounds around the late 1920s, many filmmakers started making 'talking pictures/talkies,'
but there are those (like Charlie Chaplin), who still believed in the art of silent films and produced such even during the sound era.
