Scott Lord Silent Film: Clara Bow in Parisian Love (Louis J. Gasnier, 1925)

The 1923 Clara Bow film "The Pill Pounder" (two reels) was discovered to exist when a 35 millimeter print was found in 2024, it evidently having been purchased unknowingly at an auction for twenty dollars.

Directed in 1925 by Charles Giblyn, the six reel film "The Adventurous Sex", starring Clara Bow is presumed lost, with no surviving copies existing.

Motion Picture News avoided flattering the direction of "Parisian Love", "Weak and wandering. Thrill stuff poorly executed, action draggy, footage wasted....Begins promisingly, but falls down after the first reel."

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

In 1918, the first feature films directed by Sidney Franklin appeared in theaters, among them those that were to star actress Norma Talmadge, "The Safety Curtain" (five reels), "Her Only Way" (six reels) and "The Forbidden City" (five reels). Previsously Franklin had directed childrens film for the Triangle Film Corporation at the behest of D.W. Griffith. "Her Only Way", made for the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation is presumed to be a lost film, with no surviving copies.

Sidney Franklin during 1919 directed Nornma Talmadge in the film "The Heart of Wetona" (six reels).

During 1918, Norma Talmadge had starred in the film "The Ghosts of Yesterday" directed by Charles Miller for the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation, a corporation active between 1917-1926. The film is presumed lost with no complete copies that have survivied. There is an account that the first four reels are housed in the Library of Congress as an incomplete film.

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