Scott Lord Silent Film: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) theatrical trailer
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Scott Lord Silent Film. The False Faces (Thomas Ince, 1919)
Lon Chaney, as well as having starred in the seven reel silent film “False Faces”, during 1919 starred under the direction of Tod Browning in the seven reel film “Wicked Darling”.Silent FilmLon...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Country Doctor (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1909)
. W One technique used to present narrative by D.W. Griffith, although the principle thematic action was two interior scenes connected by cutting on action, was to introduce the film with an exterior...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Mark of Zorro (Niblo, 1920)
Toward the end of 1920, Wid's Daily titled its review of Douglas Fairbanks in "The Mark of Zorro", directed by Fred Niblo, with "Slow Starting But 'Doug' Gets This One Over Well". In regard to the...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in Victory (Maurice Tourneur, 1919)
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film:The Death of Rudolph Valentino (Pathe Newsreel)
The volume “Valentino As I Knew Him” was quickly published in 1926 by S.George Ullman and the A.L.Burt Company. Ullmangives an account of his reminisces of Rudolph Valentino and his conversations with...
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Scottt Lord Silent Film:The Three Musketeers (Niblo, 1921)
Douglas Fairbanks the following year continued his series of films in which he starred as an adventure protagonist with the title role in the 1922 film “Robin Hood”, each film seeming to be a story in...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Reaching for the Moon (Emerson, Loos, 1917)
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View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Thomas Graal's Best Film (Mauritz Stille...
Bengt Forslund, in his article "Through a Glass Darkly, the silent era of Swedish Film", reminds us that Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller"made farces, comedies and melodramas, as well as medieval...
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Writing the Photoplay
One automatically wonders what was entailed in the writing of photoplays when coming across the term "spot continuity". It was described during 1923 as a script writing technique of making a brief...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Unbeliever (Alan Crosland, Edison Company, 1...
The Edison Company released its last film as a studio, "The Unbeliever" (Alan Crosland, six reels) in 1918. The periodical Motion Picture News seems to have been kept in the dark that it would be the...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Shadows (Forman, 1922)
Robert Sherwood, editor of the volume The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23, wrote, "In the direction of 'Shadows' by Tom Forman, and in the acting by Lon Chaney, Harrison Ford, Marguerite de La Motte,...
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The Photoplay: Silent Film Movie Posters
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The Photoplay: Silent Film Movie Posters
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