Scott 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...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Great Train Robbery (Porter,1903)
Vladimir Petric in A Visual/Analytical History of Silent Film (1895-1930), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, notes Porter's "The Great Train Robbery" as a "primitive use of parralel editing to...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Revelj (George af Klercker, 1917)
Directed by George af Klerker in 1917, the film "Revelj" stareed actresses Mary Johnson, Lily Croswin and Gertie Lowestrom. The screenplay was written by Carl Svensson-Graner. That year Swedish silent...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Forstadprasten (Suburban Priest, George ...
During 1917, Swedish Silent Film director George af Klerker directed actress Mary Johnson in the film "The Suburban Vicar" ("Forstudprasten"), in which she starred with Corcordia Selander and Lilly...
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....
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Sven Gustafson screenwriter, Europa 1942-1948
Fan magazines continued to supply short biographies of Greta Garbo well into the 1940's, retelling how she was discovered and repeating stories with which the public was already familiar, it...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Lili Dagover in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Rob...
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View ArticleThe Abyss (Urban Gad, Afgrunden, Denmark 1910)
Janet Bergstrom, in her papaer Asta Nielsen's Early German Films, chronicles Asta Nielsen asking Urban Gad if he would write a film for her. "Afgrunden" not only secured an international audience for...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Return of Draw Egan (William S. Hart, 1916)
In his volume The Western, From Silents to Cinerama, the author George N. Fenin highlights the theme of "the reformed outlaw" in the film "The Return of Draw Egan". The reformation is brought about...
View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film :Dodsspring til het fra circuskuplen...
The film "The Death Jump/Fatal Decision" was directed in 1912 by Eduard Schnedler-Sorensen and starred actress Jenny Roelsgaard. The photoplay was scripted by Alfred Kjerulf. Jenny Roelsgaard had...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: The Wild Bird (En Vindfagel, Brunius, 1...
Swedish silent film director John W. Brunius during 1921 directed acresses Pauline Brunius, Renee Bjorling and Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson in the film "The Wild Bird" ("En Vindfagel"). Photographed by...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: In the Fetters of Darkness (Morket I Boj...
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The Photoplay: Silent Film Movie Posters
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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 FilmMary Pickford
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The Photoplay: Silent Film Movie Posters
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The Photoplay: Silent Film Lobby Cards
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The Photoplay: Silent Movie Lobby Cards
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in 100% American (Arthur Rossen)
"She was nice and she was sweet, say many to explain the phenomenon...The reason can only be found in by relating the star to the social and cultural background of the time...Only the American...
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