Scott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in Mr. Wu (William Nigh, 1927)
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Please view these hard to find Home movies of silent film actor Lon Chaney in which the Phantom of The Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame is caught unmasked and without makeup, later in fullscreen....
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Silent Film Studio Tour, Thomas Ince Studios
Biographer John Drinkwater, in his volume The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle perfunctorily puts the career of Thomas Ince into its historical perspective, "Ince died in 1924, before his time,"....
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in The Old Actor (D.W.Griffith,...
"The Old Actor" (two reels) was directed by D.W. Griffith for the Biograph Company during 1912and was photographed by G.W. Bitzer with a scenario by George Hennessy. The film stars Mary Pickford with...
View ArticleScottt Lord Silent Film: Dream Street (D. W. Griffith, 1921)
"There is nothing of interest I can tell you about myself." A year later, Photoplay Magazine caught up with Carol Dempster and she purportedly used the exact same words, "There is nothing of interest I...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Lonely Villa (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1909)
In her autobiography, Lillian Gish discusses D.W. Griffith's use of shot length in "The Lonely Villa". Author Stanley J. Solomon, in his volume The Film Idea sees "The Lonely Villa" as only the on,y...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Lillian and Dorothy Gish in Hearts of the World (D.W....
In "Hearts of the World" (twelve reels, 1918) D.W. Griffith during a scene in which soldiers are marching, used reversed direction cutting, which he had briefly used in "A Girl and Hard Trust (1912)....
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Civilization (Thomas H Ince, 1915)
Linda A. Griffith, wife of D.W. Griffith, in an autobiographical article for the periodical Film Fun Magazine during 1917, not only reminisced of Thomas Ince having spent time at the Biograph Studios,...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in Victory (Maurice Tourneur, 1919)
Robert Gordon Anderson, in his 1971 volume Faces, Forms, Films, the artistry of Lon Chaney, writes about the film "Victory" (five reels), directed by Maurice Tournuer. "The picture had good reviews...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Biblical Drama; Christus (Guilio Antamoro, 1916)
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Biblical Drama; Jesus of Nazereth (From The Manger to...
It has been noted that "From The Manger to the Cross", directed by Sidney Olcott for the Kalem Company and shot on location in Egypt and Palenstine in 1912 and scripted by actress Gene Gauthier who...
View ArticleEarly Scandinavian SIlent Film,: FIlmed Theater and the Cinema of Attractions
William Rothman writes that only one sixth of the silent film shot before 1907 had storyline. This can apparently refer to Sweden as well. Scholar Sandra Walker, University of Zurich writes, "At the...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Silent Film Studio Tour (M.G.M, 1925)
Silent FilmThe 1925 Studio Tour of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, true to the extratextual discourse of its magazine advertisements that boasted of a firmament full of stars, featured a dozen of the studios...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Woman In the Suitcase (Fred Niblo, 1920)
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View ArticleThe Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film: Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller
"The Image Makers see their images emerge out of the story. And then suddenly: darkness."- Per Olov Enquist in Bildmakarna, a fictional account of Victor Sjostrom, Julius Jaenzon, Tora Teje and Selma...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (Ali...
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Miracles of Jesus (Mogul Film Company, 1910)
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ (1903)
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Ben Hur (Olcott, 1907)
Sidney OLcott directed the one reel "Ben Hur" (The Chariot Race) with Frank Oak Rose during 1907for the Kalem Film Manufacturing Company. The photoplay was scripted by Gene Gauthier. Silent FilmSilent...
View ArticleScott Lord on Film: A Lady To Love (Victor Seastrom, 1930)
Scholar Bo Florin gives us a point of departure when seeking to analyze the ten reel film “Lady to Love” and the transition from silent to sound film by placing director Victor Sjsotrom as part of the...
View ArticleThe House That Shadows Built: The History of Cinema (Paramount Pictures...
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