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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: Lon Chaney in Mr. Wu (William Nigh, 1927)
William Nigh directed Lon Chaney in "Mr. Wu" costarring actresses Louise Dresser, Gertrude Olmstead and Renee Adoree. "Mr Wu" was photographed by cameraman John Arbold. The periodical Moving Picture...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Female of the Species (D.W. Griffith, Biogra...
Actress appears with Dorothy Bernard and Charles West in "The Female of the Species", sirected by D.W. Griffith and photographed by G.W. Bitzer for the Biograph Film Company in 1912.Silent Film
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Silent Film Studio Tours, Life In Hollywood (Del...
The short subject weekly newsreel "Life in Hollywood" featured as extratextual discourse on the set introductions of actors and actresses that included silent film stars Aileen Pringle, Elinor Glyn,...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Silent Film Studio Tour, Life In Hollywood (Dell...
The short subject weekly newsreel "Life in Hollywood" featured on the set extratextural introductions of actors and actresses that inckuded Ruth Roland, Vivien Martin, Kathleen Clifford, and Jack and...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
The film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's account of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde directed by F.W. Murnau during 1920 is presumed lost, with no known existing copies of the film. "The Head of Janus"...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Primitive Lover (Sidney Franklin, 1922)
Directed by Sidney Franklin during 1922“The Primitive Lover” (seven reels) was scripted by Frances Marion, having been adapted from the play written by Edgar Selwyn. That year Sidney Franklin also...
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 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 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: The Great Train Robbery (Porter,1903)
In the autobiographical reminiscences William N. Selig printed in Photoplay Magazine during 1920, Selig, perhaps almost graciously, credits Edison with the "first single reel picture containing a...
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: Mary Pickford in What The Daisy Said (D.W. Griff...
During 1910 D.W. Griffith directed actress Mary Pickford in the short film "What The Daisy Said", photographed by G.W. Bitzer. Peter Cowie, in his volume Eighty Years of Cinema, gives the 1910 film...
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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