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Scott Lord Danish Silent Film: Mormonens Offer (August Blom, 1911)
Danish Silent Film"Mormonens Offer" (A Victim of the Mormens) starring Valdemer Psilander and Clara Wieth (Clara Pontipoppidan) was written by Alfred Kjerulf and directed by August Blom. It is not only...
View ArticleScott Lord Danish Silent Film: Mod lyset (Holger-Madsen, 1919)
The Danish Silent Film"Towards the Light" ("Mod Lyset"), writtn and directed by Holger-Madsen for Nordisk Films Kompagni starred Asta Nielsen. That year Holger Madsen also directed the films "Hendes...
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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: 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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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. Griffith. The film was photographed by G.W Bitzer. Silent Film
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Unchastened Woman (James Young, 1925)
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Stella Maris (Neilan, 1918)
Mary Picford's director Marshall Neilan was quoted by Peter Milne during 1922 in the volume Motion Picture Directing. "Above all, I consider the director's appreciation of the human side of life his...
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Greta Garbo in The Temptress
Greta Garbo as continuance of VampAuthor Roger Manvell, in his volume The Film and the Public notes that after World War I, the genres that were already in place began to take a new turn with the new...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Blood and Sand (Niblo, 1922)
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Scott Lord Silent Film: True Heart Susie (D. W. Griffith, 1919)
After directing “True Heart Susie” in 1919, to end the year, D.W. Griffith directed Lillian Gish in the film “The Greatest Question” (six reels), photographed by G.W. Bitzer. The films "A Romance of...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Hearts of the World (Griffith 1918)
After filming “Hearts of the World” (1918), D.W. Griffith featured actress Lillian Gish in another drama set during World War I, “The Great Love” (1918). The film is lost with no copies surviving....
View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Film: Lars Hanson in A Dangerous Proposal Rune C...
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Greta Garbo in The Torrent (Monta Bell, 1926)
A suitable story for director Mauritz Stiller, famous Swedish director who just began work under M.G.M. contract is now being sought and will be announced at an early date. Greta Garbo, who has also...
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Victor Sjostrom, Victor Sjostrom as Victor Seastrom 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...
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Covered Wagon (James Cruze, 1924)
SILENT FILM The book Pictorial Beauty on the Screen, written by Victor Oscar Freeburg in 1923, was dedicated to James Cruze, director of the silent film'The Covered Wagon'. The introduction to the...
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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 on Film: A Lady To Love (Victor Seastrom, 1930)
Scholar Bo Florin gives us a point of departure when seeking to analyze the film “Lady to Love” and the transition from silent to sound film by placing director Victor Sjsotrom as part of the M.G.M....
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) theatrical trailer
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Scott Lord Silent Film. The False Faces (Thomas Ince, 1919)
Lon Chaney, as well as having starred in the seven reel silent film “False Faces”, during 1919 starred under the direction of Tod Browning in the seven reel film “Wicked Darling”.Silent FilmLon...
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