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 Swedish Silent Film: Synnöve Solbakken (Brunius, 1919)
The first adaptation based on the novel written by Bjornstjerne Bjornson in 1857, the film was co-scripted by John Brunius and Sam Ask, John W. Brunius having directed the film. It starred actresses Lisa Holm, Ingrid Sandahl, Ellen Dall as well as Karin Molander and Lars Hanson, who eventually married in 1922. Author Peter Cowie describes Karen Molander as being "evanescent" in the film.
Aleksander Kwaitowksi places director John Brunius within the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film. "Sjostrom and Stiller were, of course, not the only directors in Sweden. Prominent among the others was John Brunius (1884-1937), pillar of the Skandia company and director of "Synnove Solbakken" (1919)based on the Norwegian novel by Bjornstjerna Bjornson, a picture that was appreciated all over Scandinavia and particularly succedded in Norway."
During 1919, John Brunius and Sam Ask also collaborated on the script to the film “Ah i, Morron Kvall”, which Brunius directed.
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