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.
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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