Scott Lord on Silent Film

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

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Scott Lord Silent Film: Clara Bow in Parisian Love (Louis J. Gasnier, 1925)


The 1923 Clara Bow film "The Pill Pounder" (two reels) was discovered to exist when a 35 millimeter print was found in 2024, it evidently having been purchased unknowingly at an auction for twenty dollars.

Directed in 1925 by Charles Giblyn, the six reel film "The Adventurous Sex", starring Clara Bow is presumed to be a lost silent film, with no surviving copies existing.

Motion Picture News avoided flattering the direction of "Parisian Love", "Weak and wandering. Thrill stuff poorly executed, action draggy, footage wasted."

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