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, January 30, 2026
Swedish Silent Film: Gustaf Wasa (Brunius, 1928)
Directed by John Brunius and photographed by Swedish cinematographers Hugo Edlund snd Karl Andersson during 1928, "Gustaf Wasa" was the only film produced by Wasa Film, Stockholm. It was the first film in which actress Elsa Burnett was to appear on screen and the second onscreen appearance of Sickan Castegren. Actresses Pauline Brunius and Karen Swanstrom also appear in the film.
Silent Film
John Brunius
Scott Lord on Silent Film, Scott Lord on Swedish Silent Film, Scott Lord on Danish Silent Film
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