Scott Lord Mystery: The Mystic (Tod Browning, 1926)
Picture Play Magazine in a photo caption wrote that actress Aileen Pringle "abandoned some of her impressive dignity" to portray the "hoydenish" fake travelling mystic in Tod Browning's film. Silent...
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 ArticleSherlock Holmes The Man With The Twisted Lip (Maurice Elvey, 1922)
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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...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Karin Ingmarsdotter (Victor Sjöström, ...
While writing about the film "Wild Strawberries", Jorn Donner notes that Ingmar Bergman's film is in part a tribute to Victor Sjostrom the director. "Many scenes have a tie-in with Victor Sjostrom's...
View ArticleUnder 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 Silent Film: Sarah Bernhardt in Les Amours de la reine Élisa...
Directing in 1912, Louis Mercatan had filmed stage actresss Sarah Bernhardt for four reels using only long static shots; there are twenty three scenes in the film and of twenty two intertitles, only...
View ArticleSilent Film notes/revision and miscellaneous filmography
Please skip these notes, revision and miscellaneous filmography a visit pages in progressSwedish Silent Film- Lost Film, Found Magazines To read the recent revision on Greta Garbo, Victor...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Worsley, 1923)
Prior to having directed Lon Chaney in the twelve reel silent film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Wallace Worsely had been behind the camera for the films “The Penalty” (1920” and “The Ace of Hearts”...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (Malcom St Clai...
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Frances Howard in The Swan (Dimitri Buchowetzki,...
Author Paul Rotha, in his volume The Film Till Now, seems to have begun a retrospective on the work of film director Dimitri Buchowetski, "Of other European directors who have had their fling in...
View ArticleScottt Lord Silent Film: Dream Street (D. W. Griffith, 1921)
"There is nothing of interest I can tell you about myself." A year later, Photoplay Magazine caught up with Carol Dempster and she purportedly used the exact same words, "There is nothing of interest I...
View ArticleScott 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: The Phantom of the Opera (Jullian, 1925)
Author Mark A. Vieira, in Silent Prototypes, the first chapter of his volume “Hollywood Horror”, almost attributes an entire subgenre of “Gorilla movie”, or “man in a gorilla suit movies” to a 1912...
View ArticleGustaf 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 Ake...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Synnöve Solbakken (Brunius, 1919)
The first adaptation based on the novel by Bjornstjerne Bjornsons, the film was co-scripted by John Brunius and Sam Ask, John W. Brunius having directed the film. It starred Karin Molander and Lars...
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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