Silent Film, Swedish Silent Film: Biograph and Svenska Bio; D.W. Griffith and Victor Sjostrom: Scott Lord on Scandinavian Silent Film: Desdemona (August Blom, 1911)

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Scott Lord on Scandinavian Silent Film: Desdemona (August Blom, 1911)

Danish Silent Film Silent Film August Blom

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Scott Lord Silent Film, While writing the page on Danish Silent Film, Swedish Silent Film, Ingma Bergman and Victor Sjostrom, M.I.T Harvard, followed by Yale Coursera developed the MOOC platform. I live down the street and have met five of my online professors. One class was from the ICU during my heart attack. A professor from Stockholm, Bo Florin, sent me a copy of his book. I’ve been married for fifteen years, so we don’t regularly meet authors on campus as often as before, but good luck if you are visiting an open to the public event. My wife and I went to a signing with Joyce Carol Oates at Harvard, Ellie Weisel at B.U. My wife is a librarian in our church if you happen to find my personal blog/scrapbook which would have lectures, concerts and museums- romantic dating while living together. We are here on the thirteenth floor overlooking the Boston Garden, Boston Science Museum, Pru and Hancock

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Lost Silent Film: Lost Film, Found Magazines

In regard to my writing Lost Films, Found Magazines, primarily spurred on by an interest in the Swedish Silent Film of Victor Sjostrom after the death of Ingmar Bergman, fifty years earlier author Gary Carey gave the hope of his publication, “to fill in some lacunae in film scholarship and in sheer film-going by presenting the only remnants of these films, still photographs designed for publicity purposes and plot synopses culled from various publications of the period.” In effect, extratextural discourse that could also include the autobiographical. Gary Carey, writing about his book Stills From Lost Films for the Museum of Modern Art in 1970 addresses use of stills to supplement the lack of existing celluloid, “Stills of course are handy as illustrations or references, but are far from dependable. Most stills are shot by a photographer after the scene has been completed on the set. The actors are asked to repeat bits of action for the still cameraman. There little that the still photograph bears resemblance to the scene of the film.”

Victor Sjostrom

Victor Seastrom Swedish Silent Film More properly the headlines should read, "Garbo Talks, Seastrom Returns Home." Victor Seastrom who had worked in the Swedish theater before pioneering in Swedish Film, returned to Sweden with the advent of the sound film, not to direct, but to act. As in Hollywood, the exterior of the Swedish landscape that had established Sjostrom, Stiller and Molander during the golden age of Swedish Silent Film had taken the innovation of sound back to the proscenium arc of the interior with Molander managing the transition to dialogue centered films.