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
Saturday, December 27, 2025
Scott Lord Silent Film: Asta Nielsen as Hamlet (Sven Gade, 1920)
"Hamlet" filmed by Georges Melies as "Hamlet and the Jester's Skull" in 1907 is a lost film with no surviving copies. The first screen version of "Hamlet" appears to have been directed by Will Barker in 1904, which inspired a French version in 1909 directed by George Bourgeois.
It is inevitable that if we ask about audience reception, the individual spectator inevitably experiences and internalizes Hamlet's soliloquy from Act III directed and performed by Laurence Olivier subjectively, but just as inevitably might be drawn to the character by the graveyard scene and Yorik from Act V when directed by Tony Richardson and performed by Nicol Williamson, "the audience as a postulated construct" simultaneously a subjective viewer; and yet the conflict between characters that might bring an immediate response is peripheral.
Danish Silent Film
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