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Why were there silent movies?

Asked by El_Cadejo (34610points) August 23rd, 2011

I’m trying to watch Dr Jeklly and Mr Hyde from 1920 and I can;t figure out why we had silent movies. I mean if we were able to overlay recorded music onto these films, why weren’t we able to overlay recorded audio?

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