Scott Lord Silent Film: Movie Museum Reel One (Kiliam, Everson, Knight)

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Paul Killiam opens his series on "the first quarter century of the movies" with the cinema of attractions and a brief section of "newsreel footage" of Fifth Avenue in New York City. It is mostly a compilation reel from the "Killiam Collection", perhaps selected or presented seemingly at random. The film abruptly cuts to a one reel example of the cinema of narrative integration from D.W. Griffith at Biograph.

Killiam televised silent films from the library of the Museum of Modern Art with his narration to suit then modern audiences while hosting The Paul Killiam Show, among the films featured having been "A Daughter of the Wilderness" (Edison Company, 1913) starring actresses Mary Fuller and Elsie MacLeod. The "Movie Museum" series aired in 1954.

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Scott Lord Silent Film: Movie Museum, Reel Two (Killiam, Everson, Knight)

Silent Film Movie Museum Reel One


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Scott Lord Silent Film: Movie Museum Reel Three (Killiam, Everson, Knight)

Reel Three reintroduces the cinema of attractions with newsreel footage of the coronation of Edward VII followed by the film "Makers and Spenders" produced by the Reliance Motion Picture Company, which operated between 1910-1916 and includes the patriotic "Spanish-American War Bond Drive" from the beginnings of yellow journalism and gunboat diplomacy.

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