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The Photoplay: Swedish Silent Movie Posters
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Silent Film revision, please disregard and navigate onward
Please skip these notes, revision and miscellaneous filmography a visit pages in progressSwedish Silent Film- Lost Film, Found Magazines To read the recent revision on Greta Garbo, Victor...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: America (D.W. Griffith, 1924)
Directed by D. W. Griffith the photographer of the film "America" (fifteen reels) was Hendrik Sartov. The film stars Carol Dempster and Neil Hamilton. Author Peter Cowie, in his volume Eighty Years of...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Blood and Sand (Niblo, 1922)
With a photoplay by June Mathis, "Blood and Sand", directed in 1922 by Fred Niblo, showcased Rudolph Valentino with Lila Lee, Nita Naldi and Rose Rosanova. The nine reel film was photographed by...
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 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: An Unseen Enemy (D.W. Griffith, Biograph 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 New York Hat (D.W. Griffith, Biograph)
Directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Film Company the film features the first photoplay written by Anita Loos. Subsequently, Loos was to write the scenarios and screenplays to films which...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Biograph Film Company; The Lure of the Gown (D.W...
Actresses Marion Leonard and Florence Lawrence appeared with Linda Arvidson in "The Lure of the Gown", directed by D.W. Griffith and photographed by G.W. Bitzer for the Biograph Film Company in 1909....
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 for the Biograph Film Company. Peter Cowie, in his volume Eighty Years of...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Female of the Species (D.W. Griffith, Biogra...
Actress Mary Pickford appears with Dorothy Bernard and Charles West in "The Female of the Species", directed by D.W. Griffith and photographed by G.W. Bitzer for the Biograph Film Company in...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Battle of Elderbush Gulch (D.W. Griffith, 1913)
In addition to using closeups to isolate the actor from their diegetic surroundings and the particular background to the action of the scene, which, while viewing the emotion of the character as...
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: Lonely Villa (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1909)
In her autobiography, Lillian Gish discusses D.W. Griffith's use of shot length in "The Lonely Villa". Linda Arvidson, wife of D.W. Griffith, in her autobiography "When the Movies Were Young" claims...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in The Mender of Nets (Biograph Film...
During 1912 D.W. Griffith directed Mary Pickford,Mabel Normand and Maugeritte Marsh in "The Mender of Nets", photographed by G.W. Bittzer. Biograph Film CompanySilent Film
View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film: Masterkatten i Stovlar (John Bruniu...
Author Forsyth Hardy, in his volume Scandinavian film explains that the film "Puss and Boots" was for Swedish Silent Film director John Brunius an early, debut attempt at filmaking and that he quickly...
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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 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...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: One is Buisness, the Other Is Crime (D.W. Griffi...
D.W Griffith directed "One is Buisness, the Other is Crime", photographed by G.W. Bitzer, for the Biograph Film Company during 1912 The film stars actresses Blanche Sweet and Kate Bruce. Authors...
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