Scott Lord Silent Film: The Lonedale Operator (Griffith, 1912)
In her autobiography, Lillian Gish discusses D.W. Griffith's cutting between camera distances in "The Lonedale Operator". The photoplay was written by Mack Sennett and photographed by G.W. Bitzer for...
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Gustaf Molander
During 1927 Gustaf Molander directed the film "Sealed Lips" ("Forseglade lappar") with Wanda Rothgardt, Mona Martensen, Stina Berg and Karin Swanstrom. It was the first film to be photographed by...
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...
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Scottt Lord Silent Film: Dream Street (D. W. Griffith, 1921)
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: (The Hell Ship 1923, Victor Sjostrom)
"The Hellship" (Eld Omboard), directed by Victor Sjostrom and co-scripted by Victor Sjostrom and Hjalmer Bergman, starred actresses Jenny Hasselqvist, Julia Cederblad and Wanda Rothgardt. Victor...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Primitive Lover (Sidney Franklin, 1922)
Directed by Sidney Franklin during 1922, “The Primitive Lover” (seven reels) was scripted by Frances Marion, having been adapted from the play written by Edgar Selwyn. That year Sidney Franklin also...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Village Blacksmith (John Ford, 1922)
Once thought to be lost, without any surviving copies of the film, not all eight reels of the film "The Village Blacksmith" have been recovered, the print that now exists being incomplete. Within the...
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Lost Film Found Magazines- Lon Chaney and the Silent Horror Film
Please view these hard to find Home movies of silent film actor Lon Chaney in which the Phantom of The Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame is caught unmasked and without makeup, later in fullscreen....
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Silent Film Studio Tour, Thomas Ince Studios
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Invaders (Ince, 1912)
Silent Film It is often acknowledged that Thomas Ince was the first director to use a shooting script. These were detailed shooting scripts, known to be meticulous in their planning, where plotline...
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Under the Red Robe (Victor Sjostrom, 1937)
Advertisements placed in the Motion Picture Herald during 1937 noted the film "Under The Red Robe, directed by Victor Sjostrom as having been adapted from the "unforgettable novel" written by Stanley...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Sangen om den eldroda blomman (Mauritz S...
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View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Film: Lars Hanson in A Dangerous Proposal (Ett Farlit...
The first film directed by Rune Carlsten, an adaptation of a story by Bjornestejerne Bjornson which Carlsten coscripted with Sam Ask, was for Filmindustri Skandia, a short lived merger which shortly...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Forbidden City (Sidney Franklin, 1918)
In 1918, the first feature films directed by Sidney Franklin appeared in theaters, among them those that were to star actress Norma Talmadge, "The Safety Curtain" (five reels), "Her Only Way" (six...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Hotel Imperial (Mauritz Stiller, 1927)
Pola Negri during 1929 had starred in "The Secret Hour" (eight reels) directed by Roland V. Lee. The film is presumed to be lost with no surviving copies. Mauritz StillerScandinavian Silent Film
View ArticleGreta Garbo before Hollywood- Lars Hanson
The 1927 article "Swedish Hospitality featured in Motion Picture Magazine gave an account of journalist Rilla Page Palmborg, author of "The Private Life of Greta Garbo", being entertained by actor...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Lillian and Dorothy Gish in Hearts of the World...
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...
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Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil
It is difficult to find notice that Victor Sjostrom had been originally slated to direct Greta Garbo and yet it is unlikely that Marcus Loew would have been in error. It is only by flash forwarding to...
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