played for him on the 1964 arkansas national championship team. >> gus: arkansas will send it away.r back. they will bring it out of the end zone. thompson. play down. and that ambrose making the tackle. don't forget coming up is the at&t post-game show. kevin, marcus and daryl. the pos and also the trophy presentation. collin klein back in. power run game pretty much eliminated now because of time for kansas state. make way for the arm. klein looking. and the ball caught on the far side. at the 21. and getting up a little shaky, terrell miller. >> referee: the pass, the defense, number 42. 15 yards from the end of the run. automatic first down. >> charles: these are the plays you just cannot have at this stage of the game if you're arkansas. everything is going your way. get an incomplete pass. well after the play. the hit by chris smith. not necessary. cost the team 15. gets the clock stopped for kansas state. and gives them better field position. bad play by chris smith. >> gus: they move it up. the pass completed to the 37. with 3:00 to go. klein, underneath. and this is chris h

played for him on the 1964 arkansas national championship team. >> gus: arkansas will send it away.r back. they will bring it out of the end zone. thompson. play down. and that ambrose making the tackle. don't forget coming up is the at&t post-game show. kevin, marcus and daryl. the post-game wrap-up and also the trophy presentation. collin klein back in. power run game pretty much eliminated now because of time for kansas state. make way for the arm. klein looking. and the ball caught on the far side. at the 21. and getting up a little shaky, terrell miller. >> referee: the pass, the defense, number 42. 15 yards from the end of the run. automatic first down. >> charles: these are the plays you just cannot have at this stage of the game if you're arkansas. everything is going your way. get an incomplete pass. well after the play. the hit by chris smith. not necessary. cost the team 15. gets the clock stopped for kansas state. and gives them better field position. bad play by chris smith. >> gus: they move it up. the pass completed to the 37. with 3:00 to go. klein, underneath. and t

he had supported the exhibit gration of the colleges and the university in arkansas. they were already integrated. when the dispute over integration of the public schools, the high schools in arkansas, turned ugly in the northern arkansas town of hoxy in 1956, falbus the consume mate politicians decided to sit that one out. at his very core, that was orville. consummate political opportunist. he possessed this, an uncanny ability to devine the strategy and objectives of his opponents and devise ways to take advantage of those strategies to achieve his own ends. after the crisis had bubbled on for a while, we can't do the whole crisis in the time allowed. you will remember that eisenhower sent personal emissaries down to falbus, particularly senator brooks -- congressman brooks hayes of arkansas, and he sort of played his trump card. still, moderation, low key. he asked falbus to come to newport. here is ike, this is eisenhower, yeah? the general. the president. calling falbus to him. falbus said, of course, i'd be glad to go and they meet at newport. 14 september, eis

in the northern arkansas town of hoctihoxy in 1956, orville decided to sit that one out. at his very core, that was orville, consummate political opportunist. he possessed this, an uncanny ability to divine strategy and objectives of his opponents and devise ways to take advantage of those strategies to achieve his own ends. after the crisis had bubbled on for a while, we can't do the whole crisis in the time allowing, but after it bubbled on for a while, you will remember that eisenhower sent personal emissaries down to faubus, senator brooks -- congressman brooks hayes of arkansas, and he did -- he sort of played his trump card. still moderation, low key, he asks faubus to come to newport. now, here's ike. this is eisenhower, yeah, the general, the president, the -- calling faubus to him. he said, of course, i'd be glad to go. and they meet at newport. 14 september, eisenhower opened the meeting by getting in faubus' face. he certainly reminded him that the instructions of a federal court must be followed by a state to the letter. now, if he left it right there, who kno

he supported the integration of colleges and universities in arkansas. they were already integrated. but when the dispute over integration of the public schools in arkansas turned ugly in the northern town of hocksey in 1956, he decided to sit that one out. at his very core, that was orville. constant, political opportunityist. he possessed this an uncanny ability to objectives of his opponents and device ways to take advantage of those strategies to achieve his own ends. after the crisis had bubbled on again, after they bubbled on for a while, he sent personal emisarries down there and congressman brooke hayes of arkansas and he did he sort of played his trump card. still, moderation, low key, he asked all of us to come to newport. now, here is ike. this is eisenhower. yeah? the general. the president. the -- calling to set a course and they meet in newport. 14th september and no uncertain terms of the instructions of a federal court must be followed by a state to the letter. now, if he left it right there, who knows what would happen. and quickly assum

you seat heavy rains over arkansas, over mississippi and birmingham, alabama.we got a stationary front to the south. this high pressure area that's keeping us dry has moderated some in that bright jane -- january sunshine. we can give you the timing. take a look at the trend. you can see that moving across the tennessee valley by tomorrow morning. right around 3:00, 4:00, we will see rain showers, heavier, steadier rains. tomorrow night realize you may be getting wet for that evening commute but no wintry whether. we're looking good thursday and another band of showers could get in here thursday night. it will be cold enough thursday night that some of it could go to a brief shot of snow showers. all right. overnight none of that, 30, mostly clear, chilly calm. 45 degrees as we cloud up. late day rain develops and tomorrow night the heavier r--- heaviest, steadiest. not cold tomorrow night. as we look ahead, fieptding temperature -- finding temperatures in the mid-50s on thursday. then our next system comes in and previously overnight. we could see some of that

. >>> deja vu in arkansas for the second year in a row. a small arkansas town has ushered in the new year in eerie fashion. before the stroke of midnight,ing the streets were littered with dead black bird that mysteriously rained down from above. matt johnson reports from beebe, arkansas. >> i didn't believe it. but now i do. >> reporter: charles moore never thought he would see the -- [ no audio ] >>> well for the second year una row a small arkansas town has ushered in the new year in eerie fashion before the stroke of midnight. the streets were littered with dead black birds that mysteriously rained down from above. katv's matt johnson reports from beebe, arkansas. >> the bird were brought down, you know, by, by fireworks this year. i didn't believe it. but now i do. >> reporter: charles moore never thought he would see the sequel to what he considered the greatest unsolved mystery of 2011. >> this morning when i came out, i had seven birds. mostly red winged black bird dead in the yard which is quite a surprise. >> instead of near thel

we have one confirmed on the ground around dewitt arkansas. in arkansas county. storm spotters confirmed that this is a large violent tornado causing damage. a dangerous situation is unfolding. we have this line that is surrounding i-40 corridor between little rock and memphis, tennessee. these storms have been moving rapidly between 60 and 70 miles per hour. you can't outrun these things and can't see them. it's night time. when the sirens go off, you need to take them seriously at this hour. we will show you the watches in effect. the tornado watch means conditions are favorable to occur. this watch is called a pds watch or particularly dangerous situation. that is evolving at this hour. the reports of damage in arkansas on the north side of town. several homes have been damaged along with trees down and reports of fires that have been burning in eastern arkansas. power lines have been coming down with this situation as well. on the northern tier here, this is the latest watch that has been issued for western kentucky and southwestern indiana and southern illin

hundreds of birds and arkansas killed. we find that their raiders made the playoffs and find out when the 49ers flee their first playoff a fistful ness >>vicki: another rash of arson fires in l.a.. police are looking for someone that could be connected to those fires. dozens of blazes have been set with an last few days. >> over 300 calls for service in this city. a 17% increase in calls city-wide. we have responded to 32 fires that are suspicious in nature. >>vicki: no one has been issued. a $60,000 reward has been issued. four people were found shot and killed at a condominium complex. >>vicki: a ranger attempted to follow a driver who opened fire before fleeing on foot. dozens of black birds died in arkansas after being startled by fireworks. it is not the first time that this has happened. last year, 5000 of the birds were found dead in the same period. >>vicki: new regulations require airlines to show all taxes and fees in displayed ticket prices. >>brian: we are wrapping of 2011 on a dry nose. this is one of the drie

. >>> thousands of birds died last year in arkansas on new year's. would you believe it happened again? >>> and j.r. martinez talks about his new role as the grand marshal at the ros >>> well, all of the major markets are closed today for the new year's holiday, of course. from overseas markets, a year to forget. the lowest end of year closing nor the nikkei. in london, the ftse was off 5.5%. and on wall street, the do you lost 76 points. the nasdaq index fell 13 points end tlg year down not quite 2 the%. >>> turbulence ahead for european economies. this are major challenges such as widening deficits and increasing cuts in services. there are questions about the future of the euro. many economists expect a recession in europe this year. >>> a u.s. oil giant has score maid jor arbitration victory against venezuelvenezuela. they must pay exxon $9 million for the company's assets. >>> no longer a dollar and a dream. at least not if you're a powerball player. the multistate lottery can doubling the price of tickets later this month to $2. they figure peo

in 2010, the arkansas supreme court unanimously throws out the confession.lice giving thomas the wrong definition of the word "waiver." his battle with the legal system ends when prosecutors take no further action. the case is dismissed. >> it's very hard for me to wrap my head around the belief of the police that thomas actually committed this murder. >> i didn't kill her. >> and that the only reason he's free is because they made a mistake in telling him what a waiver is. >> authorities say thomas' juvenile status at the time of the murder prevents them from discussing the case. in a statement to msnbc, prosecutor robin carroll did say a prosecutor is the only one in a criminal action who is responsible for the presentation of the truth. through our efforts in this case, we believe we have achieved that goal. >> someone killed my sister and they just dropped the case. justice has not been done. >> back in camden, thomas moves in with his grandparents. he says he rarely communicates with his mother and hopes to study astrophysics. this is the first time he'

out of thirty five thousand back in eighty thirties they sent us here from arkansas and they drew a line on a map and the only way we could be quapaw was inside that line so we can't go anywhere else. so the call colleagues are coming up and writing and you know it's eighteen and thirty five. and they're dropped off you know this is your land. so they explore you know basically the east side of the spring river and it's exactly the kind of land there used to it's ozarka. look and you know across the river is those high bloods. and the big bluff broad across is called the devil's. in reason it's called the old roman of this because they got there and they were working on how to get across see the rest of there and when you home and but the devil was marching praying and down top of the. blood. and everyone he tried to swim across drown. in so they couldn't cross a river is the devil's. cross. the quapaw is were moved from their original lands and place right here on a reservation inside indian territory seventy years before the war was struck oklahoma wasn't even a state back then most of

. >>> the skies over arkansas were lit up during the weekend. up next, the damage done when powerful storms passed through the area. >>> and did a jewish writer threaten the president? the investigation the secret service is launching. we will look at that after we get back from new york and a check of this morning's tech bites. >> reporter: in today's tech bites tablet and e reader ownership soared during the holidays. 29% of us now own tablet computers or electronic readers that's up 11% in a month. ownership of tablets and e- readers doubled between mid- december and beginning of this month. and in flight wi-fi is expected to be making one and half billion dollars a year for u.s. airlines. almost half of jet liners are equipped with the wireless internet service which comes with a fee. and the rest of the fleet will soon have it. and one the newest organizations to set up shock on google plus is the white house -- set up shop on the google plus is the white house. it's part of a active socialmedia campaign. after the speech you can pose quest

of the club was originally from the mississippi delta the mouth of the arkansas river mississippi river all the way across southern oklahoma was originally as they were discovered there in seventeen sixty seven by the french and at the time the discovery of vesta made the quapaw could feel seven to eight thousand more years which put the estimate in a population of about thirty five thousand kuapa the major village was so gop and today they call themselves the goblin. is french perversion and. you know it just kind of fell that way so here and seven hundred sixty seven smallpox plague hits the try and diggins to wipe them out and you can read it in the record and congressional record i've read it says that the cloth policies are no longer the tried they used to be cough was do not have the right to occupy the whole southern half of arkansas and we need to take that and give them a reservation more fitting to their size then the army began rounding them up in eight hundred thirty three they made a treaty with the remaining coffee to bring in to where they are today in a arrived here in e

. >>> well as 2012 approached, blackbirds started falling from the sky in arkansas for the second year in a row. this time they were about 100 dead birds, far fewer than the 5,000 that fell to the ground last new year's eve. authorities believe the bird were spooked by fireworks and then they became disoriented. they also believe that this time, someone set off fireworks near the roost. not nice. >> weird hitchcock movie. so strange. >>> turning now to politics. it is a big, big week. republican presidential candidates making one last pitch in iowa today ahead of tomorr'scal caucuses. mitt romney four stops planned. ron paul has five. then there is the candidate who is catching up pretty fast. abc's john carl has the more now from des moines. >> reporter: the candidate iowa is putting on the map -- former senator rick santorum. campaigning in iowa city. >> this is your chance, heartland. this is your chance, heartland of america, to speak out. >> reporter: until recently santorum was ignored by opponents and virtually invisible in the polls. now nobody is rising faster. within striking

longer the tribe they used to be was do not have the right to occupy the whole southern half of arkansas and we need to take that and give them a reservation more fitting to their size then the army began rounding them up. you know in eight hundred thirty three they made a treaty with the remaining quapaw was to bring them to where they are today in a arrived here in eight hundred thirty five. and when they arrived to this area there was only one hundred and thirty five remaining out of thirty five thousand back in eighty thirties they sent us here from arkansas and they drew a line on a map and the only way we could be quapaw was inside that line so we can't go anywhere else. so the call clothes are coming up and running and you know it's eighteen thirty five. and they're dropped off you know this is your land. so they explore you know basically the east. side of the spring river and it's exactly the kind of land there used to it's those are. lookin you know across the river is those hard blows. in the big bluff brought across is called the devil's. the reason it's called. is because th

arkansas puts it way.ld be hamilton and arkansas wins 29-16. >> how about whale watching off the coast of maui. jonathan bird. six under par. shot of the day, 25-year-old kegan bradley. approach for an eagle. watch it here. they are heading to round two. that is wrap on morning sports. mike shumann will have highlights at, 6:00 and 11:00. >> terry: next at 8:30 an online campaign commercial criticized for crossing the line. an ad that takes aim at a donor from overseas. the bone marrow drive looking for people of certain [ beep ] [ man ] you have one new message. [ mom ] hi scooter. this is mommy. the progresso chicken noodle you made is so good. the vegetables are cut nice and thick... you were always good at cutting your vegetables. and it's got tender white-meat chicken... the way i always made it for you. oh, one more thing honey... those pj's you like, the ones with the feet, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste th

residents in alabama, mississippi, arkansas, and tennessee race for cover.s the details. >> the cleanup begins -- erica edwards has the details. >> a series of unconfirmed overnight tornadoes destroyed homes and businesses across four states. sandra and laverne green of dallas county, arkansas, had just seconds to take shelter in their bathroom. >> we could feel the wind blowing. the ceilings were all matt denn. >> i am just proud to be alive. >> 450 miles away in alabama. >> we lost our house, but at least we have our family. >> the fast-moving storm system swept across the deep south from arkansas to alabama in a matter of hours. spawning what could be rare winter tornadoes. >> we were anticipating more of having to be ready in our emergency management agency for eyesores snow or frozen rain, not tornadoes. -- for ice or snow. >> we will recover, everybody will pitch in and clean up, and we will be back on top. >> after their lives were turned upside down. >> alabama has really been pounded. >> two dozen tornadoes yesterday, two more reported today. workin

one area of arkansas got hit the hardest. this is fordyce, arkansas. about two homes destroyed. there were a couple injuries reported. and as far as the storms go, thankfully haven't heard of any fatalities. again, we're still getting assessments now because the storms have been happening since dark, overnight hours, and now we've had 11 tornado reports, 118 reports of severe weather. this is something you'd see in march, april, or may. this is january. and we continue to watch these storms this morning. right now the worst of them are going through the heart of alabama, right along interstate 59 and through interstate 20. the storms have already passed through the national area. it was a really nasty storm a couple of hours ago. there are tornado warnings in meridian and alabama. i'm sewer there are tornado sirens going off at this hour. the storm will weaken today. there's even a little bit of snow on the backside of it, wisconsin, and watch out for freezing drizzle today, pennsylvania and virginia. so it's a very active weather morning on this monday. that's a look at your na

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. -- puppy mill in arkansas.of tlc he is now warming up to strangers. every day, he is trained on his leash. the most important part of getting him ready for his next town as bringing him to her own home every night. >> the microwave beeping or the sound of the dishwasher. those are things he will have to learn to get used to. >> her leg healed abnormally after it was broken into different spots. >> she would kind of a lamp. >> she is as rambunctious as ever thanks to daily rehab. >> these are the worth teeth i have ever seen. >> to relieve the pain, she is getting most of dirtied pulled out. >> these guys are so resilience. >> doctors said they are amazed that after only a few weeks of care some dogs have already gone into loving homes. the other ones are waiting for their turn. >> how is that possible? >> she can now decide which dog to take home. >> i love them all. >> that is a good problem to have. >> look at these dogs. no matter what people have done to them, they just want to be a part of somebody's famil

por segundo año consecutivo en el estado de arkansas. vivió una llegada de pajaros.muertos donde muriron unas 5 mil aves. fueron considerados como responsables pero este aoño decidieron prohibir esto. así que la repetición dejó desconcertados a todos. la falta de nieve en la sierra puede producir menos turistas y eso puede preocupar. >> en las sierras es poco el blanco que puede verse. no es un fenómeno natural. hemos colocado más nieve artifical este año sque otros. >> para martín. >> si no hay nieve no hay negocio. porque es mucho negocio. a unos les molesta. a otros les beneficia. para los restaurantes especialmente. >> el tradicional desfile de las rosas son temperaturas bastante venévolas. al volver tendrémos un recuento. >> siguieron cada año el desfile de las rosas. aquí el recuento. >> pues mucha emoción. >> si, todos están muy alegres. >> la emoción seguía. >> más de un millón de espectadores llenaron las gradas. >> a ellos les gusta ver los carros alegoricos y ver la gente, es como una fiesta bien grande. >> pasamos mucho frío pero nos hizo mucho. >> pero e

arkansas puts it away, wilson a dart to colby hamilton, and arkansas wins the cotton goal, 29-16.tle whale watching off the coast of maui. spectacular. pga season opening. the tournament of champions. byrd. he leads. shot of the day, 25-year-old keegan bradley. the approach on 9 for eagle. watch the backspin here. he's two back of byrd heading to round two at maui. have a great weekend, everybody, i'm larry beil. >> the city of oakland is getting the nod as one of the best places to go in 2012. oakland came in fifth. this is on a new york times list of the 45 places to go in 2012. oakland continued behind panama, helsinki, myanmar and london, where the olympics will be taking place. they cited oakland's growing nightlife and tensions calling down of a recent clashes involving the occupy movement, although there were two in the past 8 days. mayor brown said they should have been number one. speaking like a typical mayor. >> just ahead, the ad that takes aim at a candidate that adopted two daughters from oversees. and also the bone marrow drive of look four people of two specific d

possibly spawning tornadoes and they flattened homes and buildings in alabama, arkansas, mississippi,nessee. >> reporter: as the morning breaks, the cleanup begins. across the deep south a series of unconfirmed overnight tornadoes destroyed homes and businesses across four states. >> it's unbelievable. >> reporter: sandra and laverne greene of dallas county, arkansas had just seconds to take shelter in their bathroom. >> it was over in about five minutes and we started -- we could feel wind blowing on us and looked in the bathroom. the ceiling is all mashed in with limbs in. >> i'm just proud to be alive. >> reporter: a feeling shared by mark cluck some 450 miles away in center point, alabama. >> we lost our house but at least we have -- i'm sorry -- we got our family. >> reporter: the fast moving storm system swept across the deep south from arkansas to alabama in a matter of hours spawning what could be rare winter tornadoes. >> we were anticipating more of having to be ready in our emergency management agency for like ice or snow or frozen rain, you know, not tornadoes. >> despite

this same system also destroyed homes and buildings in tennessee and arkansas. in fact, as many as 16 tornados have been reported through central arkansas. including in fordice. this area is riddled with downed trees and power lines but the people there are keeping their spirits up. >> just it's going to take a while. get everything up, get the power back up, clean up. but we're going to make it. we'll be all right. >> many parts of the south are under a tornado watch, which is very rare in january. again, two people confirmed dead in alabama as a result of this severe weather. we'll continue to keep an eye on this throughout the morning. >> thank you very much. much closer to home, heavy rains making quite a mess at a neighborhood in the oakland hillside. crews have been clearing debris near oak wood drive and wild currant way. 50 feet of roadway slid on top of another street. despite the mess residents were able to move out through some detours set up. crews also worked to restore power to more than 160 homes in the area. >> we needed the rain but it can cause

take a burroughs the keep it campaign manager for a congressional candidate in northwest arkansas told the police monday that he found his family's cat brutally slaughtered over the weekend with the word liberal painted on the corpse lives in a heavily conservative portion of arkansas and is the campaign manager for ken aden who is hoping to win a seat the the seat of freshman republican representative steve womack in a statement to the press hopefully one of these days congressman aden said it is one thing to engage in civil political discourse and for republicans and democrats to disagree with each other which is an expected part of the political process taking it to this level is beyond acceptable mr ayton is absolutely right taking political discourse to the level of savagely killing an animal just to make some sort of political statement has no place in our society and is very. well. coming up after the break mitt romney released his tax returns but don't think this makes him more relatable to the average joe what did his returns really tell us about his well. it's technology inno

. >> it has happened again, why hundreds of birds fell from the sky in arkansas. ,,,, >> good morning from the traffic center, holiday light on the freeways this morning. lots of good news to report but there are changes to mass transit. >>> less than 36 hours from now, iowa republicans will begin a caucus kicking off the 2012 presidential primary. six of the gop candidate will cover as much ground as possible. in the meantime, this is the final day of campaigning, a new des moines register poll shows mitt romney ahead. romney spoke yesterday of his test of whether a program should stay or go. >> it is a program that's so critical to america, that we should be borrowing money from china to pay for it. i will kill that program. >> i would say that the momentum for the cause of freedom in this country and restoration of the constitution and a sensible foreign policy and addressing the federal reserve and economic crisis, i would say the people are we me on this. >> the register poll shows michele bachmann last among the six republicans that are now competing in iowa. >>> a tournament of

we're watching thunderstorms down and parts of arkansas. reported up of lake and mchenry county is. then we get hit with a big storm i will talk about that in just a moment. nothing particularly impressive of this however it is already there have been seven tornadoes reported in arkansas, a couple homes damaged in cleveland county and these are cracking northeast of about 55 mi. per hour. in parts of indiana it's possible that here in chicago we may hear a clap of thunder later tonight. snow showers probably one-tenth of an inch not going to be a big snow of and for us. a look at the rainfall is expected. about 1- 210 7 in. snowfall not very much. two tenths of 1 in. of snow fall. look at the fog problems. meanwhile temperatures tonight across the area have been rising, we should hit 40 degrees before the thunderstorms hit indiana to ensure strong are expected to fall. low temperatures 35-40 degrees. on monday cloudy skies with snow showers. 37-42 degrees and falling throughout the day. seven day forecast, another little system doing here o

he dispatched personal arkansas and to gather information and breach the differences between the state and national governments and repeatedly refused advice from subordinary nats or even forceful measures to resolve the crisis and sought to provide as much time as he could to become comfortable with koord mandated desegregation. and the end, of course, the ruling of the court was implemented only after the president ordered the 101st to occupy the city of little rock. so what happened? what happened? why did the policy that served ike so far in other foreign and domestic physical challenges fail him so completely at little rock? there are many answers to this question, of course. economic, political, certainly social. but one reason that i think is often ignored and it shouldn't be, that wung reason oroville eugene he was the governor of arkansas and was the person with whom ike would predominantly interact. but in that interaction ike underestimated oroville. orville was a master

>> we are looking at parts of arkansas right now. in the last three hours we have had about four reports of tornadoes. at this hour we have a confirmed tornado on the ground with this cell. storm spotters have confirmed that this is a large violent tornado causing damage. very dangerous situation unfolding. we have this line, this whole area surrounding the i 40 corridor between little rock and memphis, tennessee. this is the area of concern. these storms have been moving rapidly to the north and east between 60 and 70 miles per hour. you can't outrun these things. you can't see them. they are rain wrapped. it is nighttime. when the sirens go off you definitely need to take them very seriously. a tornado watch means conditions are favorable for tornadoes to occur. this watch is what we call a particularly dangerous situation. that is what has been evolving at this hour. there are reports of dangerous in arkansas on the north side of town. several homes have been damaged. we also have reports of fires burning in eastern arkansas becau

the dragon is considered an extremely lucky symbol. >>> tornados have been reported in arkansas where damaged transformers and delivered golf-ball size hail. fortunately, no reports of injuries. >>> today's weather, freezing rain in the northeast. fierce storms in the east. rain and snow in the upper midwest and strong winds in southern california. >>> an this morning, hollywood's version of the playoffs gets under way tomorrow morning when the oscar nominations are finally announced. >> and the oscars are an abc. some of the buzz is for the silent film "the artist." carrying on a long-lost tradition. ♪ >> reporter: it's believed that the first silent film on record could be this one. 1895. performed in thomas edison'udioa film studio, a violin playing into a phoneograph, just dancing, no words. those steps saying it all. from there, thousands of films would be produced. from a birth of a nation to slap stick comedy, so many from charlie chaplin. as many as 800 silent films a year. october 6, 1927 when the films of hollywood broke their silence opening night. for this movie known for