Silent Film
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, among them 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;how it was reviewed, audience reception perhaps actor to actor.
Greta Garbo
Saturday, July 30, 2022
The Photoplay: Silent Film Movie Posters
Friday, July 29, 2022
Scott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in Little Annie Rooney (William Beaudine, 1925)
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Swedish Silent Film Stars on the Theater Stage
Einar Froberg
Erik Petschler
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Gyurkoricsarna (John Brunius, 1920)
Suprisingly, the screenplay of "Lieutenant Tophat" (Gyurkoriscarna) is credited to Pauline Brunius and Gosta Ekman, who star in the film with Gucken Cederberg and Jessie Wessel. Directed byJohn Brunius in 1920, the film was photographed by Hugo Edlund. Swedish Silent Film Silent Film
Scott Lord Silent Film: (Hårda viljor (Brunius, 1923)
Directed by John Brunius in 1923 with a screenplay coscripted Sam Ask, "Harda Viljor" starred actresses Lilla Bye and Linnea Hillberg. The film was photographed by Hugo Edlund.
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Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Åh, i morron kväll (John Brunius, 1919)
Directed in 1919 by John W. Brunius with a screenplay cowritten by Brunius and Sam Ask "Ah, i morron kvall" featured actresses Mary Graber, Jean Grafstrom and Gucken Cederborg.
John Bruinis
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Thursday, July 14, 2022
Scott Lord Silent Film: The Politician's Love Story (D.W. Griffith, 1909)
The Politicians Love Story is a brialliant, early example of reverse screen direction, using diagnol framing to depict perspective.
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D.W. Griffith
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Linda Arvidson in The Adventures of Dollie (D.W....
Actress Linda Ardvison, writing in the periodcial Film Fun during 1916, includes the "now historic" film "The Advntures of Dollie" directed by D.W Griffith for the Biograph Film Company in 1908. Arvidson wrote under the name Mrs. D.W. Griffith. In one installment she reminisces about travelling to film exterior scenes, claiming they hadn't automobiles yet and visited locations by train or by boat. In a later installment she dicusses her salary for the film, "How much money I made! Twenty eight dollars in two weeks, enough for a whole spring outfit." What is more enjoyable is the autobiography of Mrs. D.W. Griffith, When Movies Were Young, published in 1925. Much of the material from the Film Fun periodical is repeated, worded similarly, as she gives an account of D.W. Griffith the actor being offered a provisional chance to direct his first film, "The Adventures of Dollie", given that he could return to acting if necessary. Mrs. D.W. Griffith exlains Griffith having been accepted as a director for Biograph, "For one year now, those movies so covered with slime and so degraded would have to come first to come first in his thoughts and affections....agonizing days when he would have given his life to be able to chuck the job." She includes not only the studio on East Fourteenth Street but the theaters on Third and Ninth Avenues as places into which one would not be seen going.
Author Roger Manvell, in his sixty page introduction to the anthology "Experiment in the Film" credits "The Adventures of Dollie" as the first film in which D.W. Griffith had used the flashback. Silent Film D.W. Griffith D. W. Griffith
Author Roger Manvell, in his sixty page introduction to the anthology "Experiment in the Film" credits "The Adventures of Dollie" as the first film in which D.W. Griffith had used the flashback. Silent Film D.W. Griffith D. W. Griffith
Scott Lord Silent Film: Battle of Elderbush Gulch (D.W. Griffith, 1913)
In addition to using closeups to isolate the actor from their diegetic surroundings and the particular background to the action of the scene, which, while viewing the emotion of the character as seperate in turn embeds, or immerses the character into the diegesis, locking and intertwining them into the word within the frame, D. W. Griffith would establish the relationship between character and environment as well through the use of editing and by varying spatial relationships, notably in the silent film "The Battle of Elderbush Gulch" through the use of the longshot and the use of interiors.
The two reel film stars actresses Lillian Gish and Mae Marsh.
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Country Doctor (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1909)
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One technique used to present narrative by D.W. Griffith, although the principle thematic action was two interior scenes connected by cutting on action, was to introduce the film with an exterior panning shot as the establishing shot. The film is concluded with a similar exterior shot which pans in the opposite direction to imply the story had reached an irrevocable conclusion. D.W.Griffith D.W. Griffith Biograph Film Company
Scott Lord Silent Film: The Lesser Evil (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1912)
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Scott Lord Silent Film: Civilization (Thomas H Ince, 1915)
Linda A. Griffith, wife of D.W. Griffith, in an autobiographical article for the periodical Film Fun Magazine during 1917, not only reminisced of Thomas Ince having spent time at the Biograph Studios, but also of his wife, actress Eleanor Kershaw, having spent her short lived on screen career with the Biograph Film Company. By the time of its publication, Eleanor Kershaw had left silent film acting to devote herself to being the mother of three children. Silent Film Intolerance The Invaders
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