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
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: The Wild Bird (En Vindfagel, Brunius, 1...
Swedish Silent Film director John W. Brunius during 1921 directed acresses Pauline Brunius, Renee Bjorling and Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson in the film "The Wild Bird" ("En Vindfagel"). Photographed by Hugo Edlund, the film was co-scripted by Brunius with screenwriter Sam Ask.
The film was shown in the United States as "Give Me My Son". During its first run the periodical Moving Picture World subtitled its review with "Feature That Will Please Whenever Naturalness Is Appreciated". It provided the "exploitation angle" of "Get interest in it chiefly because it is foreign." The periodical The Film Daily wrote, "Its gets away from the conventional happy ending. It is not tragic, but unexpected, and not what you think it will be. The denoument is particularly well handled." Under the "story" section, it wrote, "Involved, but maintains the quality of coherence and stands out as unusual" and under the "direction" section it wrote, "handles more dramatic moments effectively but otherwise is average."
Scandinavian Silent Film
Silent Film
Scott Lord on Silent Film- please enjoy screening the Hollywood Silent Film and Scandinavian Silent Film that has survived and that we do still have today and then continue to descriptions and biographical accounts of lost silent films, of which there are no surviving copies that can be presently screened including Sherlock Holmes,Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Greta Garbo and Lon Chaney in my paper “Lost Film, Found Magazines” : viewing reviews of silent film printed during their first run and viewing posters, lobby cards and magazine advertisements to study lost silent films within the context of the director’s career and the growing popularity of its star within a specific genre. The films of D.W. Griffith and G.W. BItzer with Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish and Blanche Sweet. Swedish Silent Film of Victor Sjostrom, Victor Seastrom in the United States, Mauritz Stiller, John Brunius and George af Klercker. the Danish Silent Film of August Blom and Carl Th. Ďreyer.
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