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1925
 
    
Charlie Chaplin makes The Gold Rush, involving his little tramp in the horrors of wintry Alaska       
1925
 
    
The Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein completes his film about the 1905 revolution, The Battleship Potemkin       
1925
 
    
Film actress Greta Garbo and her director Maurits Stiller move from Sweden to Hollywood       
1926
 
    
Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, has a synchronized musical score, making it the earliest example of a film with a sound track       
1927
 
   
Clara Bow stars in It, the silent film that gives her her famous nickname – the 'It' Girl      
1927
 
    
Austrian director Fritz Lang creates a wildly ambitious silent film, Metropolis, the commercial failure of which bankrupts its studio       
1927
 
     
Although not the first film with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson in the title role does much to popularize the 'talkies'        
1927
 
    
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star together for the first time in the silent film Duck Soup       
1928
 
     
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali make Un Chien andalou, a surrealist film specifically designed to shock        
1928
 
     
Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in Walt Disney's short animated film Steamboat Willie