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Scott Lord Silent Film: The White Rose (D.W. Griffith, 1923)
After directing “The White Rose” in 1923, D. W. Griffith in 1924 directed the film “America” and “Isn’t Life Wonderful” during 1924.D.W. GriffithSilent Film
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Scott Lord Silent Film: America (D.W. Griffith, 1924)
The photographer of the film was Hendrik Sartov. The film stars Carol Dempster and Neil Hamilton. During 1924, D.W Griffith also directed Carol Dempster and Neil Hamilton in the film “Isn’t Life...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Lillian and Dorothy Gish in Hearts of the World (D.W....
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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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Love Flower (D.W. Griffith, 1920)
Writer Anthony Slide provides biographical entries on one hundread Silent Film stars without avoiding both ones that he met personally and more prominent choices in a section titled "Legends". About D....
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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...
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Scottt 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...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: True Heart Susie (D. W. Griffith, 1919)
Author Anthony Slide perpiscaciously introduces D. W. Griffith actress Clarine Seymour by noting that both Seymour actor Robert Harron, who had appeared together in both "The Girl Who Stayed Home" and...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: A Romance of Happy Valley (D. W. Griffith, 1919)
One specific use of technique Griffith uses in the film to depict narrative is a cut back and forth within the scene to an inserted close shot to reveal the character’s thoughts of another person....
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Girl Who Stayed Home (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
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The Photoplay: Silent Film Movie Posters, D.W. Griffith
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The Photoplay: Silent Film Lobby Cards, D.W. Griffith
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: A Trip to the Moon (George Melies, 1902)
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Stanely J Solomon, in his volume The Film Idea, attribures George Melies with being a film pioneer, "The following film techniques were popularized- and some perhaps invented by Melies: double...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Mystery Film: Dr. Nicholson and the Blue Diamond (1913)
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View ArticleScott 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...
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. Lillian and Dorothy Gish appeared in a dozen two reel films together during 1912...
View ArticleScott 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...
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The Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film: Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller
Please tap screen to zoom-in if necessary"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...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The New York Hat (D.W. Griffith, Biograph)
Directed by D.W. Griffith, the film features the first photoplay written by Anita Loos. Subsequently, Loos was to write the scenarios and screenplays to films which starred Douglas Fairbanks. The New...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Gosta Ekman in Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)
Janet Bergstrom, University of California, writes that with the film "Faust", among others, Murnau had "unchained the camera" with moving shots that seemed unique...sweeping the audience's emotions...
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