Scott Lord Scandinavian Film: Lars Hanson in A Dangerous Proposal Rune C...
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View ArticleGreta Garbo in The Torrent (Monta Bell, 1926)
A suitable story for director Mauritz Stiller, famous Swedish director who just began work under M.G.M. contract is now being sought and will be announced at an early date. Greta Garbo, who has also...
View ArticleVictor Sjostrom, Victor Sjostrom as Victor Seastrom 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 Covered Wagon (James Cruze, 1924)
SILENT FILM The book Pictorial Beauty on the Screen, written by Victor Oscar Freeburg in 1923, was dedicated to James Cruze, director of the silent film'The Covered Wagon'. The introduction to the...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: Intolerance; Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages...
Three years before the premier of "Intolerance" (D.W. Griffith, 1916), author Eustace Ball, in the volume "The Art of the Photoplay" advised, "Put one plot at a time; the single reel picture lasts...
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 film “Lady to Love” and the transition from silent to sound film by placing director Victor Sjsotrom as part of the M.G.M....
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) theatrical trailer
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View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film. The False Faces (Thomas Ince, 1919)
Lon Chaney, as well as having starred in the seven reel silent film “False Faces”, during 1919 starred under the direction of Tod Browning in the seven reel film “Wicked Darling”.Silent FilmLon...
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