Scott Lord on Silent Film

Scott Lord on Silent Film
Gendered spectatorship notwithstanding, in a way, the girl coming down the stairs is symbolic of the lost film itself, the unattainable She, idealized beauty antiquated (albeit it being the beginning of Modernism), with the film detective catching a glimpse of the extratextural discourse of periodicals and publicity stills concerning Lost Films, Found Magazines

Sunday, June 21, 2026

Scott Lord Silent Film: Noah’s Ark (Vitagraph, 1911)

Most films made by the Vitagraph Company can be listed as Lost Silent Film.

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Scott Lord Silent Film:The Vicar of Wakefield (Ernest C. Warde, 1917)

The sixth silent film version of "The Vicar of Wakefield" (eight reels) in about that many years was filmed by Ernest C. Warde for the Tanhouser Film Corporation. That year Warde had also filmed an adaptation of the Wilkie Collins novel "A Woman in White" starring Florence LaBadie.

The periodical Motion Picture News when reviewing the film adaptation was laudatory of the novel by Oliver Goldsmith, claiming that it was widely read and accoladed by the authors Irving, Scott and Goethe. "So the picture 'Vicar of Wakefield' is stripped of its fine English and narrowed down to bare plot....His plot, if it may be called such, is grossly episodic and wanders," The magazine then appraised the film as a costume drama, Ernst Warde in the production of "The Vicar of Wakefield" has achieved a wonderful atmosphere, realistic to the period, the mid-eighteenth century."

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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Kiss (Vitagraph, 1914)

Thought to be a lost silent film, "The Kiss" was appreantly rediscovered in the modern era. Silent Film