It was, as all films were then, silent. Telling stories without words became a staple of animation, with early shorts like Max Fleischer’s Out of the Inkwell series and Walt Disney’s Silly ...

In the past, several high-profile animated movies have had their silent ... and the Cobbler originally featured two principal silent characters in the form of Tack the Cobbler and The Thief.

While silent animated shorts are still commonplace ... The animation, full of exaggerated appendages and character design that border on the grotesque, is hypnotizing, and the story propels ...