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Scott Lord Silent Film: Jesus of Nazereth (From The Manger to the Cross,...
It has been noted that "From The Manger to the Cross", directed by Sidney Olcott for the Kalem Company in 1912 and scripted by actress Gene Gauthier who played The Virgin Mary in the film, owes a debt...
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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...
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The Photoplay: Silent Movie Lobby Cards, Lon Chaney
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Lost Film Found Magazines- Lon Chaney and the Silent Horror Film
Please view these hard to find Home movies of silent film actor Lon Chaney in which the Phantom of The Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame is caught unmasked and without makeup, later in fullscreen....
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Ben Hur (Olcott, 1907)
Sidney OLcott directed the one reel "Ben Hur" (The Chariot Race) with Frank Oak Rose during 1907for the Kalem Film Manufacturing Company. The photoplay was scripted by Gene Gauthier. Silent FilmSilent...
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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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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Lesser Evil (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1912)
The Lesser of Evil starred actresses Blanche Sweet and Mae Marsh and was directed for Biograph by D.W. Griffithduring 1912. The film was photographed by G.W Bitzer. Silent FilmBiograph Film Company
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Lena and the geese (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1912)
During 1912Mary Pickford, Kate Bruce and Mae Marsh starred for D.w. Griffith at Biograph in the one-teel "lena and the Geese". Silent FilmD.W. GriffithBiograph Film Company
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 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: 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 1912and was photographed by G.W. Bitzer with a scenario by George Hennessy. The film stars Mary Pickford with...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Switchtower (Biograph, 1913)
During 1913D.W. Griffith directed Lional Barrymore and Henry B. Wathall in the one reel film "The Switchtower". Silent FilmSILENT FILMD.W. GriffithSILENT FILM
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Girl and Her Trust (Griffith, Biograph, 1912)
DUring 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...
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: Corner in Wheat (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1909)
"The Miller's Daughter", "The Song of the Shirt"(1908) and "A Corner of Wheat", directed by D.W. Griffith for the Biograph Film Company are early films that depicted the individual within a social...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Country Doctor (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1909)
One technique used to present narrative by D.W. Griffith, although the principle thematic action was two interior scenes connected by cutting on action, was to introduce the film with an exterior...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: A Strange Meeting (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1909)
"A Strange Meeting", directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company during 1909 starred actress Stephanie Longfellow. Silent FilmD.W. GriffithBiograph Film Company
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Confidence (D.W. Griffith, 1909)
D.W. Griffith wrote and directed the one reel film "Confidence" during 1909. Photographed by G.W. Bitzer and Authur Marvin, the filmfeatures Florence Lawrence along with D.W. Griffith's wife, Linda...
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