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
Friday, February 20, 2026
Scott Lord Silent Film: Clara KImball Young in Hearts in Exile (James Young, 1915)
Clara Kimball Young starred in two films during 1915 listed as a Lost Silent Film by Stanford University, both directed by James Young, "Making Money" (five reels) and "The Heart of Blue Ridge" (five reels). The film "Magda" (Emile Chatutard, 1917) with Clara Kimball Young, scripted by Margaret Turnball, is also listed as being lost. More significantly, the existant films starring Clara Kimbal Young from that year are noted for being adaptations of literature in light of Hollywood have spent its first decade of the transition from stage to screen, her that year having starred in "Trilby", directed by Maurice Tourneur and "Camille" written by Frances Marion.
Actress Clara Kimball Young was married to James Young between 1910-1919. Both appeared on screen in front of the camera in the Vitagraph film "Lady Godiva" (J. Stuart Blackton, 1911).
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