Swedish Silent Film: Greta Garbo, Victor Sjostrom as Victor Seastrom: Scott Lord

The volume “Valentino As I Knew Him” was quickly published in 1926 by S.George Ullman and the A.L.Burt Company. Ullmangives an account of his reminisces of Rudolph Valentino and his conversations with him. “The priest came at my summons and was alone with the dying man for some time...Rudy forced a smile so wan that it belied his brave words and said, ‘I’ll be alright’...’Don’t pull down the blinds! I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me.’...These were the last intelligible words he ever spoke.”

Victor Sjostrom

Victor Seastrom Swedish Silent Film More properly the headlines should read, "Garbo Talks, Seastrom Returns Home." Victor Seastrom, who had worked in the Swedish theater before pioneering in Swedish Film, returned to Sweden with the advent of the sound film, not to direct, but to act. As in Hollywood, the exterior of the Swedish landscape that had established Sjostrom, Stiller and Molander during the golden age of Swedish Silent Film, had taken the innovation of sound back to the proscenium arc of the interior with Molander managing the transition to dialogue centered films.

Victor Sjostrom

Several of the films directed by Victor Sjostrom use artistic experiments in camera technique conducive to conveying symbolic meaning and dramatically charged images, among them being Masks of the Devil, with John Gilbert, and the earlier Kiss of Death, made in Sweden. Victor Sjostrom had begun on stage as an actor in Sweden and appears both on screen as well as from behind the camera. it is an obvious tribute to The Phantom Carriage that Ingmar Bergman includes the actor Victor Sjostrom in a symbolic scene during Wild Strawberries. In his autobiography Images, Ingmar Berman regrets that his workbook to the screenplay to Wild Strawberries had been lost, but he continues to acknowledge the influence of Sjostrom as a director while he moved "spontaneously between different planes-time-space,dream-reality....the hearse that overturns with the coffin bursting open." Silent Film Victor Sjostrom

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Thursday, August 9, 2018

Scott Lord Silent Film: Rhubarb Vaseline in Mud and Sand

Scott Lord Silent Film: Dr Pyckle and Mr. Pride (Pembroke, 1925)

Scott Lord Silent Film: West of Hot Dog

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Slueth (Sweet, 1925)

Scott Lord Silent Film: Silent Film Studio Tour, Thomas Ince Studios

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Scott Lord Silent Film: Knight of the Trail (Ince, 1915)

Scott Lord Silent Film: Knight of the Trail (Ince, 1915)

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Invaders (Ince, 1912)

Monday, August 6, 2018

Scott Lord Silent Film: Silent Film Studio Tour (M.G.M, 1925)

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Scott Lord Silent Film: A Fool There Was (Powell, 1915)

Friday, August 3, 2018

Scott Lord Silent Film:The Death of Rudolph Valentino (Pathe Newsreel)

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Scott Lord Silent Film: Felix in Hollywood (1923)

Sunday, July 29, 2018

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Deerslayer Wellin, 1920)

Scott Lord Silent Film: Rudolph Valentino in The Eagle (Brown,1925)

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Duchess of Buffalo (Sidney Franklin, 1926)

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Girl and Her Trust (Griffith, Biograph, 1912)

Scott Lord Silent Film: An Unseen Enemy (Griffith, 1912)

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Water Nymph (Sennett, Keystone, 1912)

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Scott Lord Silent Film: Midnight Girl (Noy, 1925)

Friday, July 27, 2018

Scott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in The Scarlet Car (DeGrasse, 1917)

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