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.
Friday, January 2, 2026
Scott Lord Silent Film: Asta Nielsen as Hamlet (Sven Gade, 1920)
Lilly Jacobsson played Ophelia opposite Asta Nielsen's titular Hamlet. The film was photographed by Curt Courant and Danish Silent Film cinematographer Axel Graatkjaer, who had photographed the 1911 Danish film version of Hamlet directed by August Blom.
"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. Sven Gade came to the United States to direct actress Jacqueline Logan during 1925 in the film "Peacock Feathers" before turning screenwriter. Danish Silent Film Asta Nielsen in The Abyss
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