Scott Lord Silent Film: The Girl and Her Trust (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1912)
During 1912 actress Dorothy Bernard starred in for director D.W. Griffith at Biograph in the one reel "The Girl and Her Trust". The cinematographer to the film was G. W. Bitzer.In regard to the...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Great Train Robbery (Porter,1903)
In the autobiographical reminiscences William N. Selig printed in Photoplay Magazine during 1920, Selig, perhaps almost graciously, credits Edison with the "first single reel picture containing a...
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Scott Lord Silent Film. The False Faces (Thomas Ince, 1919)
The Paramount Artcraft publicity releases for 1918 divided their review into three columns, one announcing a "Startling Theory Suggested", another announcing a "Brilliant Leading Lady for Henry B....
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Greta Garbo photographed by Ruth Harriet Loiuse
Journalist Katherine Albert during 1928 wrote,"You have seen Ruth Harriet Louise's name almost as often as you've seen Greta Garbo's. It is usually printed in small type under the photographs of...
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Greta Garbo before Hollywood- Einar Hanson and Mauritz Stiller
Motion Picture News explained that Corrinne Griffith would begin filming "Into Her Kingdom", based on a nobel by Ruth Comfort Mitchell, upon the completion of the film "Mllo. Modiste" of which she was...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Hotel Imperial (Mauritz Stiller, 1927)
Norman J. Zierold, in Garbo, his biography of the Swedish Sphinx, gives an account of Mauritz Stiller going to Paramount after habing been dismissed from Greta Garbo's The Temptress, "The deflated...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Parson’s Widow (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1920)
Dryer travelled to Sweden to direct the film "The Parson's Widow" in 1920. Peter Cowie addresses both genre and autuer theory, without giving away that genres develop parralel to the careers of...
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Danish Silent Film: Sherlock Holmes at Elsinore
Danish Silent Film: Sherlock Holmes at Elsinore/Sherlock Holmes pa Marienlyst; Asta Nielsen, Ebba Thompsen, Betty Nansen, Valda Valkyrien and the Nordisk Film Kompagni, Great Northern Film and Carl Th....
View ArticlePraesidenten (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1919)
Although "The President" (Praesidenten, 1919), written and directed by Carl Th. Dreyer, photographed by Hans Vaage, and having starred Elith Pio and Olga Raphael-Linden, is not always distinguished as...
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Remade by Greta Garbo: Camille
Studio manager of Rasunda was relegated to Vilhelm Bryde during 1923. Author Forsyth Hardy Gaines an account, "His influence was most clearly seen in 'Damen med Kamelioarna', a static, theatrical...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Silent Film Studio Tour, Thomas Ince Studios
Biographer John Drinkwater, in his volume The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle perfunctorily puts the career of Thomas Ince into its historical perspective, "Ince died in 1924, before his time,"....
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Civilization (Thomas H Ince, 1915)
Linda A. Griffith, wife of D.W. Griffith, in an autobiographical article for the periodical Film Fun Magazine during 1917, not only reminisced of Thomas Ince having spent time at the Biograph Studios,...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in What The Daisy Said (D.W. Griff...
During 1910 D.W. Griffith directed actress Mary Pickford in the short film "What The Daisy Said" (1910), photographed by G.W. Bitzer for the Biograph Film Company. Peter Cowie, in his volume Eighty...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: A Narrow Escape (Pathe, 1908)
"A Narrow Escape" is evidently the only film in which both the doubling narrative, or bification narrative, used in crosscutting and the last minute rescue were present before their use in the films of...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Blanche Sweet in Judith of Bethulia (D.W. Griffith,...
Lillian Gish's autobiographical account of "Judith of Bethulia" (D.W. Griffith at Biograph, 1914) included in her volume The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me can again be placed in the historiography of...
View ArticleCover Letter: Scott Lord on Silent Film https://garbo-seastrom.blogspot.com
The blog garbo-seastrom.blogspot.com (authored by Scott Lord) is a specialized online publication and archive dedicated to the history, preservation, and critical analysis of silent cinema, with a...
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As The Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film Begins to Wane
Swedish Silent Film Companies Merge, Svensk Filmindustri Emerges The historiography of film criticism, especially when it leads to peer review, not only adds an interest to film studies, but...
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Sweden Talks, Waiting in Vain for Greta Garbo; Victor Sjostrom the actor
The Arrival of Swedish Sound FilmAuthor Jon Wengstrom has noted that as early as October of 1933 director Gustaf Molander and cameraman Julius Jaenzon were among the founding members of the Swedish...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Clara Bow in Free to Love (Frank O’Connor, 1925)
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