Scott Lord on Silent Film Hollywood, Lost Silent Film, Swedish Silent Film, Danish Silent Film: 2025-05-04

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, among them 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;how it was reviewed, audience reception perhaps actor to actor.

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Calles New Clothes (Calles Nya Klader, G...

During 1916, George af Klercker wrote and directed the films "Calle's New Clothes" (Calles Nya Klader), starring Mary Johnson and Teckla Sjoblom, and "Calle as a Millionaire" (Calle som Miljonar), starring Maja Cassel and actress Helge Kihlberg in the first film in which she was to appear.Both films were photographed by Gustaf A. Gustafsson and Carl Gustaf Florin. Silent Film Swedish Silent Film Georg af Klercker

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Scott Lord Silent Film: Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline, The Shatter...

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The Swedish censorship of 1911 prevented "The Perils of Pauline from becoming familiar to audieneces in Sweden. Marina Dahlquist, in her article "The Best Known Woman in the World" writes that the cliffhanger "constituted precisely the type of films that the Swedish national censorship body was ser up to weed out from the market, aside from sexually tinged Danish melodrama." Dahlquist adds that there had also been a lack of publicity for the film, a lack of dvertising, or "newspaper-magazine tie ins".

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Perils of Pauline, Silent Cliffhanger