Scott Lord Silent Film: Lillian and Dorothy Gish in Hearts of the World (D.W....
In "Hearts of the World" (twelve reels, 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)....
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...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in The Old Actor (D.W.Griffith, 1912)
"The Old Actor" (two reels) was directed by D.W. Griffith for the Biograph Company during 1912 and was photographed by G.W. Bitzer with a scenario by George Hennessy. The film stars Mary Pickford with...
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” (one reel), directed by D.W. Griffith. Lillian and Dorothy Gish appeared in a dozen two reel films together...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The White Rose (D.W. Griffith, 1923)
After directing “The White Rose” (twelve reels) in 1923, D. W. Griffith in 1924 directed the film “America” and “Isn’t Life Wonderful” during 1924.D.W. GriffithSilent Film
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" (one reel). The photoplay was written by Mack Sennett and photographed by G.W....
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Brass (Sidney Franklin, 1922)
"Brass" (nine reels), directed in 1922 by Sidney Franklin and starring actresses Marie Prevost, Rosmary Church and Lucy Baldwin was one of the several films that year photographed by cinematographer...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in Victory (Maurice Tourneur, 1919)
Robert Gordon Anderson, in his 1971 volume Faces, Forms, Films, the artistry of Lon Chaney, writes about the film "Victory" (five reels), directed by Maurice Tournuer. "The picture had good reviews...
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 ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Linda Arvidson in The Adventures of Dollie (D.W....
Actress Linda Ardvison, writing in the periodcial Film Fun during 1916, includes the "now historic" film "The Advntures of Dollie" (one reel) directed by D.W Griffith for the Biograph Film Company in...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Her Night of Romance (Sidney Franklin, 1924)
Directed by Sidney Franklin for First National Pictures, "Her Night of Romance" (eight reels) paired Ronald Colman with actress Constance Talmadge. Silent FilmConstance Talmadge
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Her Sister From Paris (Sidney Franklin, 1925)
Directed by Sidney Franklin for First National Pictures, "Her Sister From Paris" (seven reels) paired Ronald Colman with actress Constance Talmadge.Silent FilmConstance Talmadge
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 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, "The...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Black Oxen (Frank Lloyd, 1924)
Claimed to have been a "sensation" by writers of the period, "Black Oxen" (eight reels) was directed by Frank Lloyd, who co-wrote the script with Mary O'Hara as an adaptation of a then recent, then...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Beauty’s Worth (Robert Vignola, 1922)
Directed by Robert G. Vignola for Cosmopolitan Productions, "Beauty's Worth" (seven reels) showcases Marion Davies starring with actresses June Eldvige and Lydia Yeamans.
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Girl and Her Trust (Griffith, Biograph, 1912)
Actress Dorothy Bernard starred in for director D.W. Griffith at Biograph in the one reel "The Girl and Her Trust".Dorothy Bernard went on to film for the Fox Film Corporation, beginning with the 1915...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The King on Main Street (Monta Bell, 1926)
Actresses Bessie Love and Greta Nissen appear in "The King on Main Street" (seven reels), directed in 1926 by Monta Bell. Silent FilmMonta Bell
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (Malcom St Clai...
Malcom St. CLair directed actresses Florence Vidor and Barbara Pierce in "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter" (sever reels).Silent FilmSilent Film
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Covered Wagon (James Cruze, 1924)
SILENT FILM The book Pictorial Beauty on the Screen, written by Victor Oscar Freeburg in 1923, was dedicated to James Cruze, director of the silent film'The Covered Wagon' (ten reels). The introduction...
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