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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: Synd (Gustaf Molander, 1928)
Swedish silent film director Gustaf Molander had in fact been at the Intima Theatern from 1911 to 1913. In regard to the film “Synd”, Forsyth Hardy writes, “The Merzback influence had helped to scale...
View ArticleBodakingen, The Tyrrany of Hate (Gustaf Molander, 1920)
“The King Boda” (“Tyranny of Hate/Boda kungen”, 1920) was the first film to bear the name of Gustaf Molander as director, Molander having also scripted the photoplay. It was also the first film to be...
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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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The Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film: Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller
"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 Sjostrom, Julius Jaenzon, Tora Teje and Selma...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Hotel Imperial (Mauritz Stiller, 1927)
The periodical Photoplay during 1927 looked at the film "Hotel Imperial", "Here is a new Pola Negri in a film story at once absorbing and splendidly directed...Hotel Imperial places Mauritz Stiller at...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Gosta Ekman in Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)
The immanent departure of director F.W. MUrnau for America had already been announced by the periodical Motion Picture News during late 1925 while Murnau was readying the film "Faust". It was to star...
View ArticleScott Lord: The Thief of Bagdad (Walsh, 1924)
The periodical Exhibitors Herld during 1924 announced that the film "The Thief of Bagdad", produced by Douglas Fairbanks came with a story written by Elton Thomas, the scenario editor Lotta Woods,...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Intolerance; Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages...
Three years before the premier of "Intolerance" (D.W. Griffith, 1916), author Eustace Ball, in the volume "The Art of the Photoplay" advised, "Put one plot at a time; the single reel picture lasts...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Greta Garbo In The Joyless Street (G.W. Pabst, 1...
In The Film Till Now, a survey off world cinema, Paul Rotha writes, “It is impossible to witness the showing a Film by Pabst without marveling at his unerring choice of camera angle for the expression...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: When Knighthood Was In Flower (Robert G. Vignola...
Director Robert G. Vignola adapted "When Knighthood Was In Flower" (twelve reels) from a work by Charles Major. The 1922 film stars Marion Davies with actresses Ruth Shepley, Theresa Maxwell Conover...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: (Hårda viljor (Brunius, 1923)
Swedish Silent Film director John W. Brunius during 1922 directed actress Lilla Bye and Linnea Hillberg in the film "Harda Viljer", cowritten by Brunius and Sam Ask, the film was photographed by...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Deluge (Vitagraph, 1911)
Little is known as to whether the films based on the Holy Bible exhibited during the 1920's are entirely lost films, with no surviving copies or not. It is often noted that the cinematic depiction of...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Noah’s Ark (Vitagraph, 1911)
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Scott Lord Silent Film: A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Kent, 1911)
Silent Film actor and actress Maurice Costello and Florence Turner star in the 1911 filming of "A Tale of Two Cities" (three reels), directed by Charles Kent. Among several later adaptations was "A...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Samson and Delilah (Edward J. Collins, 1922)
It seems odd that the periodical The Film Review and Moving Picture News during 1922 included "Samson and Delilah" in a series of "one reel pictures based on dramatic incidents in well known opera", a...
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Scott Lord Silent Film. The False Faces (Thomas Ince, 1919)
The Paramount Artcraft publicity releases for 1918 divided their review into three columns, one announcing a "Startling Theory Suggested", another announcing a "Brilliant Leading Lady for Henry B....
View ArticleScott 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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