Scott Lord Silent Film: Silent Film Studio Tour, Thomas Ince Studios

Biographer John Drinkwater, in his volume The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle perfunctorily puts the career of Thomas Ince into its historical perspective, "Ince died in 1924, before his time,". Writing on the death of Thomas Ince during 1925,the periodical Exhibitor's Trade Review waxed poetic, "He loved the clean, the beautiful, the sublime. He embellished and ornamented everything he touched. But he yet held the life trend true in its course and in that relation opened wide the way for the higher and grander conception of the Screen are to obtain in the future through the work of kindred spirits who will find inspiration and encouragement in the bigger and nobler accomplishements which the devoted his useful years.

Arthur Knight, in his volume The Liveliest Art during 1959 opines that as early as it was in the historiography of silent film criticism few of the silent films of Thomas Ince had survived, their having then had been Lost Silent Film. "Perhaps his mysterious death in 1924 before there was any condiderable literature on the art of motion pictures has also contributed to the relative obscurity of this gifted pioneer. But while it is difficult today to find a 'Vintage Ince', a film produced between 1914-1920, those that do turn up are invariably admirable in editing, construction and story."

Paul O'Dell, in his volume Griffith and the Rise of Hollywood chronicles that Ince had stopped directing by 1914, but edited and supervised the the detailed shooting scripts required for the photoplays he produced. In regard to Lost Film, Found Magazines, researching the periodicals from the time of the film's first run to gain a better idea of the content of films that cannot now be screened, Richard Stanton in the periodical Motography during 1915 described Inceville in an autobiographical interview style article entitled "Thoroughness in Production", having explained, "I am a believer in big effects and of building up to a story and thrilling climax...I'd sum up the present situation of the photplay, thouroughness is the prevailing note and it means the life of the motion picture."

Thomas Ince, who had begun directing at Biograph in 1910, as a producer had formed the Triangle Film Corporation with D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennet during 1915, with him leaving to First National by 1917, joined there by D.W. Griffith in 1919.
Exhibitor's Herald during 1924 reported a new stage having been built for Ince's selection of directors, its dimensions seventy two by one hundred and eighty feet.

The Invaders directed by Thomas Ince

Silent Film Thomas Ince