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New. Shepperton Babylon author Matthew Sweet uses clips from the few silent films that survive to illustrate how early British cinema was as wild as anything that came out of Hollywood.

(Charlie Chaplin is profiled in Paul Merton's Silent Clowns tomorrow at 9pm)

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Matthew Sweet

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