Scott Lord Silent Film: The Phantom of the Opera (Jullian, 1925)

Scott Lord Danish Silent Film: Revolutionsbryllup (August Blom, 1914)

Scott Lord Silent Film: American Aristocracy (Ingraham, Triangle Film, 1...

Motion Picture Review reviewed “An American Aristocracy” in 1916. “The exhibitor knows the value of Douglas Fairbanks...We sincerely believe that Mr. Fairbanks can put this picture over with any audience whatsoever. It mixes comedy and thrills superbly. However, in the matter of construction it is not up to the standard of the best of his former pictures. It starts off with such a bang and such a rattling selection of uproarious subtitles that it cannot keep up the pace and as a consequence the action slowly up for a while during the middle of the picture. In the end, however, the thrills start again and takes the picture through to a glorious finish.”
For those interested in the screenwriting behind the photo play, which for this film was penned by Anita Loos, below is a magazine short story version, or novelization, of the Doulas Fairbanks Film.

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Greatest Question (D.W. Griffith, 1919)

Scott Lord Silent Film: Battle of Elderbush Gulch (D.W. Griffith, 1913)

Scott 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 panning shot as the establishing shot. The film is concluded with a similar exterior shot which pans in the opposite direction to imply the story had reached an irrevocable conclusion.

Scott Lord Silent Film: Silent Command

Scott Lord Silent Film: Shadows (Forman, 1922)

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Forbidden City (Sidney Franklin, 1918)

Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Hjärtats triumf (Gustaf Molander, 1929)

Scott Lord Silent Film:Foolish Wives (Von Stroheim,1922)

Scott Lord Silent Film: Blind Husbands (Von Stroheim, 1919)

Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Åh, i morron kväll (John Brunius, 1919)

Scott Lord Silent Film: A Romance of Happy Valley (D. W. Griffith, 1919)

One specific use of technique Griffith uses in the film to depict narrative is a cut back and forth within the scene to an inserted close shot to reveal the character’s thoughts of another person. Lillian Gish is seen in close up during the flashback soliloquy insert.

Scott 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.

Scott Lord Silent Film: Orphans Of The Storm (D.W. Griffith, 1921)

Scott Lord Silent Film: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Neilan, 1917)

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Love Light (Frances Marion, 1921)

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Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Gyurkoricsarna (John Brunius, 1920)

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Love Flower (D.W. Griffith, 1920)