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As The Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film Begins to Wane
Swedish Silent Film Companies Merge Author Leif Furhammar has written that the merger between Swedish Silent Film companies Svensk Bio and Skandia to form Svensk Filmindustri took place in 1919, after...
View ArticleSwedish Silent Film, director George af Klercker
Anne-Kristin Wallengren, for Nordic Academic Press, only indirectly refers to the work of Gosta Werner and the restoration of lost silent film in the article, Welecome Home Mr. Swanson-Swedish...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Lonely Villa (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1909)
In her autobiography, Lillian Gish discusses D.W. Griffith's use of shot length in "The Lonely Villa". Linda Arvidson, wife of D.W. Griffith, in her autobiography "When the Movies Were Young" claims...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in The Mender of Nets (Biograph Film...
During 1912 D.W. Griffith directed Mary Pickford,Mabel Normand and Maugeritte Marsh in "The Mender of Nets", photographed by G.W. Bittzer. Biograph Film CompanySilent Film
View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film: Masterkatten i Stovlar (John Bruniu...
Author Forsyth Hardy, in his volume Scandinavian film explains that the film "Puss and Boots" was for Swedish Silent Film director John Brunius an early, debut attempt at filmaking and that he quickly...
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The Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film: Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller
"The Image Makers see their images emerge out of the story. And then suddenly: darkness."- Per Olov Enquist in Bildmakarna, a fictional account of Victor Sjostrom, Julius Jaenzon, Tora Teje and Selma...
View ArticleBodakingen, The Tyrrany of Hate (Gustaf Molander, 1920)
“The King Boda” (“Tyranny of Hate/Boda kungen”, 1920) was the first film to bear the name of Gustaf Molander as director, Molander having also scripted the photoplay. It was also the first film to be...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: One is Buisness, the Other Is Crime (D.W. Griffi...
D.W Griffith directed "One is Buisness, the Other is Crime", photographed by G.W. Bitzer, for the Biograph Film Company during 1912 The film stars actresses Blanche Sweet and Kate Bruce. Authors...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in The Unchanging Sea (Griffith, 1...
D.W. Griffith directed his wife, Linda Arvidson, and actress Mary Pickford in "The Unchanging Sea" (one reel) for the Biograph Film Companyduring 1910. The film was adapted from a poem by Charles...
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Greta Garbo before Hollywood- Einar Hanson
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...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in The Old Actor (D.W.Griffith,...
"The Old Actor" (two reels) was directed by D.W. Griffith for the Biograph Film Company during 1912and was photographed by G.W. Bitzer with a scenario by George Hennessy. The film stars Mary Pickford...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Greta Garbo in The Temptress (Fred Niblo)
The periodical Motion Picture News during 1926 the filming of "Temptress" with a review entitled "Greta Garbo in the Title Role of 'The Temptress'. It read,"Greta Garbo, Swedish actress, will have the...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Confidence (D.W. Griffith, 1909)
D.W. Griffith wrote and directed the one reel film "Confidence" for the Biograph Film Company during 1909. Photographed by G.W. Bitzer and Authur Marvin, the filmfeatures Florence Lawrence along with...
View ArticleScott Lord: Greta Garbo in The Divine Woman (1928, Victor Sjostrom)
"The Divine Woman" directed in the United States during 1928 featured three Swedish Silent Film stars from the Golden Age of Swedish Silent film, two of whom, Victor Sjostrom and Lars Hanson, would...
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Greta Garbo
Garbo, Sjostrom and StillerMulvey, in Visual Pleasure and Narrative, namedrops: "Similarly, conventional close-ups of legs (Deitrich) for instance, or a face (Garbo), integrate the narrative into a...
View ArticleScott Lord Shakespeare in Silent Film: The Taming of the Shrew (D.W. Gri...
Robert Hamilton Ball, in his volume Shakespeare on Silent Films explains the increase of adaptations of Shakespeare's plays during 1908-1911. "By 1908, the story film had become general...Moreover,...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Linda Arvidson in The Adventures of Dollie (D.W....
Actress Linda Ardvison, writing in the periodcial Film Fun during 1916, includes the "now historic" film "The Advntures of Dollie" (one reel) directed by D.W Griffith for the Biograph Film Companyin...
View ArticleEarly Scandinavian SIlent Film,: FIlmed Theater and the Cinema of...
Before Charles Magnusson, who became manager of Svenska Bio during 1909, had initiated the beginning of the classic period of the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film, while Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz...
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Sweden Talks, Waiting in Vain for Greta Garbo; Victor Sjostrom the actor
Author 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 Film Society (Svenska...
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Greta Garbo in The Torrent (Monta Bell, 1926)
A suitable story for director Mauritz Stiller, famous Swedish director who just began work under M.G.M. contract is now being sought and will be announced at an early date. Greta Garbo, who has also...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: America (D.W. Griffith, 1924)
Directed by D. W. Griffith the photographer of the film "America" (fifteen reels) was Hendrik Sartov. The film stars Carol Dempster and Neil Hamilton. Author Peter Cowie, in his volume Eighty Years of...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Synd (Gustaf Molander, 1928)
Swedish Silent Film director Gustaf Molander had in fact been at the Intima Theatern from 1911 to 1913. In regard to the film “Synd”, Forsyth Hardy writes, “The Merzback influence had helped to scale...
View ArticleSwedish Silent Film: Anna Hofmann-Uddren.
Swedish Silent Film pioneer Anna Hofmann-Uddren began filming for Orientaliska Teatern in 1911 with the film "Stockholmsdamemas alskling" starring Carl Barklind, Sigurd Wallen, Erica Tomberg and...
View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film: The Gardner (Tradgardsmastanen, Vic...
Banned in Sweden during 1912, "The Gardner", written by Mauritz Stiller and directed by Victor Sjostrom was thought to be lost untill a surviving copy was found sixty eight years later in the Library...
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