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Steve Sterner's job as a pianist playing music for silent movies started on a fancy idea about four decades ago.

He was at a friend's party and decided to make sound by beating the ivories while a silent cartoon played. Impressed with the performance, his friend invited him to play along to a full-length feature silent film at the theater.

This fall, Mr. Sterner, 67 years old, is celebrating his 35th anniversary as a piano accompanist at Film Forum by playing 12 silent movies of his choice at the theater in Greenwich Village, He has picked movies starring Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton and ones directed by Frank Borzage. The series started in August and goes until early November.

''All these films are wonderfulsaid Mr. Sterner, who is also an actor and a singer. '' People might not have heard of or seen them, but they are little gems(寶石)waiting to be discovered. "The silent-film era peaked almost a century ago and fizzled out with the arrival of the talkies, or movies with synchronized(同步的