Scott Lord: The Outlaw and His Wife (Victor Sjostrom, 1918)
After having appeared in “The Outlaw and His Wife”, actress Edith Erastoff starred with Lars Hanson and Greta Almroth In “The Flame of Life” (1919), directed by Mauritz Stiller And “Let No Man Put...
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Scott Lord Danish Silent Film: Mormonens Offer (August Blom, 1911)
Danish Silent Film"Mormonens Offer" (A Victim of the Mormens) starring Valdemer Psilander and Clara Wieth (Clara Pontipoppidan) was written by Alfred Kjerulf and directed by August Blom. It is not only...
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Swedish Silent Film, The Golden Age in Decline
Swedish Silent Film scholar Bo Florin makes note of the province held by Nils Bouveng at the newly structured Svenska Filmindustri after the merger had taken place of the smaller companies into one and...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Sangen om den eldroda blomman (Mauritz S...
"The Song of the Scarlet Flower" (Sangen och elroda blomman, 1919) was to star Lars Hanson, Greta Almroth, Lilebel Ibsen and Edith Erastoff. The film was directed by Mauritz Stiller with a photoplay...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Thomas Graal’s Basta Barn (Mauritz Still..
Peter Cowie, in his volume Scandinavian Film, writes, "The domestic relationships and erotic byplay in Stiller's comedies posses an application and validity beyond their immediate setting- and...
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Swedish Silent Film, director John W. Brunius
In the United States, Photoplay magazine during 1919 included two still photographs, one of Mary Johnson and one of Gosta Ekman in Puss in Boots. The former was captioned," above is Miss...
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Sweden Talks, Waiting in Vain for Greta Garbo; Victor Sjostrom the actor
Author Jon Wengstrom has noted that as early as October of 1933 director Gustaf Molander and cameraman Julius Jaenzon were among the founding members of the Swedish Film Society (Svenska...
View ArticlePraesidenten (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1919)
Although "The President" (Praesidenten, 1919), written and directed by Carl Th. Dreyer, photographed by Hans Vaage, and having starred Elith Pio and Olga Raphael-Linden, is not always distinguished as...
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Scott 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 ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Frankenstein (J. Searle Dawley, Edison Manufactu...
Authors Dennis R Cuthcin and Dennis R. Perry in their work "The Frankenstein Complex, when the text is more than a text" view the silent film "Frankenstein" as having been inspired by several stage...
View ArticleScott Lord Shakespeare in Silent Film: The Taming of the Shrew (D.W. Gri...
Robert Hamilton Ball, in his volume Shakespeare on Silent Films explains the increase of adaptations of Shakespeare's plays during 1908-1911. "By 1908, the story film had become general...Moreover,...
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Silent 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: 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...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in Oliver Twist (Frank Lloyd, 1922)
In addition to starring in the film “Oliver Twist”, during 1922 Lon Chaney appeared in two films that are now lost, “Blind Bargain” (Wallace Worsley) in which he starred with Jacqueline Logan and...
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