 have been created, since it is shot with pure silent technique, long wordless sweeps of narrative without a single intertitle - - save for a few disconcerting sequences where louise brooks, playing a french typist, is quite visibly speaking in english... the only section that obviously cries out for sound is the final scene, where brooks is watching the rushes for her test'for a sound film': footage which plays constantly in the background as the action unfolds, with her mouth moving in ceaseless soundless