Scott Lord on the Silent Film of Greta Garbo, Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjostrom as Victor Seastrom, John Brunius, Gustaf Molander - the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film........Lost Films in Found Magazines: Victor Seastrom directing John Gilbert and Lon Chaney, the printed word offering clues to deteriorated celluloid, extratextual discourse illustrating how novels were adapted to the screen; the photoplay as a literature, a social phenomenon; how it was reviewed, audience reception.
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
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni, 1927)
Perhaps overshadowed by the double exposures of the opening shot, the film begins with a subjective point of view of a ghost, dollying in to show the apparition had been wandering the earth for two decades.
The eight reel silent film was photographed for Universal Pictures by cinematographer Gilbert Warrenton.
Paul Leni, like F.W. Murnau, Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller, was among several directors from Europe who emigrated to Hollywood toward the end of the silent film era, it often being that film critics regonize European silent film as a sinking ship of which Hollywood had pulled ahead before the technologicaal innovation of sound film, a historiography that would recognize transnational cinemas.
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