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Victor Sjostrom, Victor Sjostrom as Victor Seastrom 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...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: LIllian GIsh in Orphans Of The Storm (D.W. Griffith,...
The photographer of the film was Hendrik Sartov. When seen by Norwegian director Tancred Ibsen, "Orphans of the Storm" was one of the films included in is decision to go to Hollywood, albeit none of...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Mae Marsh in Hoo Doo Ann (Ingraham, 1916)
In her autobiography entitled "Screen Acting", it is invigorating that actress Mae Marsh remains steadfast to her subject- just that, the silent film actress in front of the camera acting, perhaps...
View ArticleScott Lord SIlent Film: Wax Works (Paul Leni, 1924)
Paul Leni directed the expressionistic film "Wax Works" before coming to America to direct the films "The Cat and the Canary" and "The Last Warning". Silent Film
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Swedish Silent Film
Swedish Silent Film scholar Bo Florin makes notes of the province held by Nils Bouveng at the newly structured Svenska Filmindustri after the merger had taken place of the smaller companies into...
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...
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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 ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film :Dodsspring til het fra circuskuplen...
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View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film: Bjrnetaemmern (Bear Tamer of the Fl...
During 1912, Lilli Beck appeared in the sequel to the film "The Flying Circus" (Lind, 1912), again appearing on the screen as a snake charmer under the direction of Alfred Lind in "The Bear Tamer of...
View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film: Den Flyvende Circus (The Flying Circus,...
Lilly Beck starred in over ten films made by Mauritz Stiller during the first four years of Svenska Biografteatern and almost ten films directed then by Victor Sjsotrom. By 1912 she was married to...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Hearts of the World (Griffith 1918)
In "Hearts of the World" (1918) D.W. Griffith during a scene in which soldiers are marching, used reversed direction cutting, which he had briefly used in "A Girl and Hard Trust (1912). Matching the...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in Little Annie Rooney (William...
Audiences in 1925 viewed Mary Pickford in the silent film "Little Annie Rooney" (William Beaudine, nine reels). Silent FilmSilent FilmSilent Film
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Silent Film notes/revision and miscellaneous filmography
Swedish Silent Film:Victor Sjostrom- Lost Film, Found Magazines Victor SjostromTo read the recent revision on Greta Garbo, Victor Sjostrom,Scott Lord on Silent Film.I hope to transfer the information...
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Author Anne-Kristin Wallgren, on Nordic Academic Press, notes that the films of Karin Swanstrom may have seemed atypical with the Swedish Silent Film of Sweden's Golden Age. In Welcome Home, Mr...
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. It was also the first film to be photographed by Adrian Bjurman. The film stars...
View ArticleEarly Scandinavian SIlent Film,: FIlmed Theater and the Cinema of Attractions
William Rothman writes that only one sixth of the silent film shot before 1907 had storyline. This can apparently refer to Sweden as well. Scholar Sandra Walker, University of Zurich writes, "At the...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Triumph of the Heart (Hjärtats triumf, Gustaf...
Directed by Gustaf Molander, the film “Hjartats Triumf” was written by Paul Merzbach and is listed as having been photographed by J. Julius, a pseudonym used by Julius Jaenzon along with cameraman Axel...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Linda Arvidson in The Adventures of Dollie (D.W....
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: An Unseen Enemy (Griffith, 1912)
The year 1912 was to mark the first film with Lillian and Dorothy Gish, “An Unseen Enemy”, directed by D.W. Griffith.Silent FilmLillian and Dorothy Gish
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