Scott Lord on Silent Film

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Scott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in The Poor Little Rich Girl (Tour...


In his volume Eighty Years of CInema, author Peter Cowie describes the film "Poor Little Rich Girl" as "the fey beauty of Mary Pickford at its most beguiling." Directed by Maurice Tourneur from a photoplay written by Frances Marion, the film stars Mary Pickford with actresses Gladys Fairbanks, Madlaine Traverse and Maxine Eliot Hicks.

Silent Film Silent Film

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Scott Lord Silent Film: Castle Films Yesteryear Lives Again

silent film Silent Film

Scott Lord Silent Film: Old Time Movies Castle Films 8mm

silent film silent film

Scott Lord Silent Film: Yesterday and Today Newsreel (1929)

SIlent Film Silent Film

Scott Lord Silent Film: Yesterday and Today Newsreel (1929)

silent film silent film silent newsreels

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Scott Lord Silent Film: Brass (Sidney Franklin, 1922)

"Brass" (nine reels), directed in 1922 by Sidney Franklin and starring actresses Marie Prevost, Rosmary Church and Lucy Baldwin was one of the several films that year photographed by cinematographer Norbert Brodine. Sidney A. Fraklin that year directed the films "East is West", "Primitive Lover" and Smilin' Through". Silent Film Silent Film Silent Film