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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Sheik (Melford,1921)
The 1921 Photoplay review of "The Sheik", starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayers may or may not infact seem cryptic to modern readers, "For the glamor and beauty of the desert, the colorful...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Invaders (Ince, 1912)
Silent Film Having directed "The Indian Massacre" and Across the Plains" the year before, Thomas Ince during 1012 directed the films "The Invaders" (three reels) starring its co-director Francis Ford...
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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...
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Scott 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: Noah’s Ark (Vitagraph, 1911)
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Deluge (Vitagraph, 1911)
Exhibitor's Trade Review lured projectionists to screen a Bible series during 1922 by promising the distribution of "direct propaganda" to ministerial bodies and schools. Perhaps a modern account would...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Sarah Bernhardt in Les Amours de la reine Élisa...
Directing in 1912, Louis Mercatan had filmed stage actresss Sarah Bernhardt for four reels using only long static shots; there are twenty three scenes in the film and of twenty two intertitles, only...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Anne Boleyn (Morlhon, 1912)
The periodical Motography during 1914 gave the date of the settings of the film "Anne Boleyn (1912 as 1532 during the reign of Henry VIII, typifying the film as an early example of the costume drama...
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Silent Film Hollywood, Color and Tint in Film
The Film Daily magazine during early 1928 made one of its many pertinent announcements entitled Janet Gaynor Goes Abroad, which read, "Janet Gaynor, who recently signed a five year contract with Fox,...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Motion Picture News during 1921 readily boasted that more than seven different types of "exploitations" were used to advertise the film "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" starring Rudolph...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Worsley,...
Prior to having directed Lon Chaney in the twelve reel silent film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Wallace Worsely had been behind the camera for the films “The Penalty” (1920” and “The Ace of Hearts”...
View ArticleSwedish Silent Film, director John W. Brunius
Swedish Silent Film: John Brunius 1919-1930) 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...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Golem, How He Came into the World (Paul Wegener,...
Exhibitor's Herald during 1921 praised the film "The Golem" (Der Golem) for its "ingenious handling of the masses engaged in many of the scenes, persons numbering in the thousands", claiming, "the...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Craving (John and Francis Ford, 1919)
In the extratextural discourse that may have developed the confections of genre, Motion Picture Weekly published press sheets for Bluebird's "sensational melodrama""The Craving" with "Suggestions for...
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Scott 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...
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Swedish Silent Film Stars on the Theater Stage
Einar Froberg Einar Froberg acted at the Svenska Teatern during 1903. Froberg co-starred with Victor Sjostrom in the 1913 film "Barnet", directed by Mauritz Stiller. He returned to the screen in front...
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Swedish Silent Film Stars on the Theater Stage
Gustaf MolanderGustaf Molander had in fact been at the Intima Teatern from 1911-13. Gustaf MolanderKaren Molander Actress Karin Molander appeared with the Intima Teatern between 1911-1920 while married...
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