During 1912 D.W. Griffith directed Mary Pickford, Mabel Normand and Maugeritte Marsh in "The Mender of Nets", photographed by G.W. Bittzer. "The Mender of Nets" was the first film in which Mary Pickford had appeared at the studios of the Biograph Film Company. "The Mender of Nets" was photographed by G.W. Bitzer.
Although it seems the director of the lost silent film "Honor Thy Father" in which Mary Pickford starred for the Majestic Motion Picture Company during 1912 with Owen Moore, is unknown, Moore starred with Pickford in several of her films of the period that are now lost, with no surviving copies, the name of their directors also presently unknown. Before 1912 she had previously starred under the direction of Thomas Ince at Independent Motion Picture Company, where she appeared in twenty eight films that are now presumed lost, with no surviving copies existing, and at Majestic Studios, where four out if the five films that she appeared in are presumed to be presently lost. Among the one reel lost silent films that Mary Pickford made in 1910 were "Back to the Soil", "The Fishermaid" (Thomas Ince), "For Her Brother's Sake" and "For the Queen's Honor".
Biograph Film Company
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: 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
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