Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by material or technique]
7. motion pictures (visual works)
8. silent films

Anotations

Scope note:

Early silent motion pictures, made prior to 1910, usually of very short length, recording people and events from everyday life as it happened. They were usually filmed direct from life but sometimes manipulated.