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Friday, February 2, 2024

Scott Lord on Film: A Lady To Love (Victor Seastrom, 1930)



Scholar Bo Florin gives us a point of departure when seeking to analyze the ten reel film “Lady to Love” and the transition from silent to sound film by placing director Victor Sjsotrom as part of the M.G.M. Studio, adding that Sjostrom had ushered in the beginning of the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film with his adapation of Ibsen’s poem Terje Vigen and effected the transition which would be carried through the merger of Swedish film companies that had changed Svenska Bio to Svenska Filmindustri, and in doing so it is important to Florin that both transitions were from quantity to quality when involving Victor Sjostrom.

Bo Florin sees the transition of silent to sound film as one that depicts both off screen and onscreen space through the use of diegetic sound. Florin sees the film "Lady to Love" as important when analysizing "the intersection of different cultures" and "the consequences of the transition to sound for an individual director who was frequently using visual 'sound effects' in his films during the silent era."

Actress Vilma Banky had in 1928 starred in the film "The Awakening" (Victor Fleming (nine reels), a film presently presumed to be lost with no surviving copies.
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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Scott Lord Silent Film: Ben Hur (Olcott, 1907)

Sidney OLcott directed the one reel "Ben Hur" (The Chariot Race) with Frank Oak Rose during 1907 for the Kalem Film Manufacturing Company. The photoplay was scripted by Gene Gauthier, who appears in the film with actor William S. Hart. Silent Film Silent Film

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Scott Lord Silent Film: La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ (1903)

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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Miracles of Jesus (Mogul Film Company, 1910)

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Monday, January 29, 2024

Scott Lord Silent Film: Silent Film Studio Tour (M.G.M, 1925)

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The 1925 Studio Tour of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, true to the extratextual discourse of its magazine advertisements that boasted of a firmament full of stars, featured a dozen of the studios directors that were then present on the backlot filming that year, inluding Victor Sjostrom, Dimitri Buchowerski, Monta Bell, Rupert Holmes, Eric von Stroheim, Fred Niblo, King Vidor, Joseph von Sternberg, Christy Cabanne, Tod Browning, William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Edmund Goulding and Marcel de Sarno. Actors and actresses featured in the studio tour included Zazu Pitts, Roman Novarro, Aileen Pringle, Gertrude Olmstead, Norma Shearer, Mae Murray, Lew Cody, Estelle Clark, Conrad Nagel, and Lon Chaney

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