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Mystery: Boris Karloff as Mr Wong, Detective

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Sherlock Holmes Speckled Band

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Universal Sherlock Holmes Trailers

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12 Sep 15:43

Silent Film Magazine Art: Bluebird Photoplays

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12 Sep 15:43

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Golem (Paul Wegener, 1920)


Exhibitor's Herald during 1921 praised the film "The Golem" for its "ingenious handling of the masses engaged in many of the scenes, persons numbering in the thousands", claiming, "the point of direction and composition" was a "splendid piece of work". It also added, "The lighting, photography and general detail is lacking, and the characters, many of them, are over done in make-up."
Author Lotte H. Eisner, in his volume "The Haunted Screen", explains the contemporaneity of "The Golem", "Paul Wegener always denied having had the intention of making an Expressionist film with his Golem. But that has not stopped people from calling it Expressionist." Seeing the film as an import, or "art film"- an idea particularly important to Scandinavian film companies during that decade almost up to the departure of Charles Magnusson from Swedish Biograph, and therefore an idea frequent in the extratextural film discourse of film critics and reviewers- Picture Play Magazine during 1921 also compared "THe Golem" to "Doctor Caligari" and the theater of Max Reinhardt in its having translated to the screen "the immense imaginative possiblities of the futurist school of dramatic expression". That year periodical highlighted the film with a two page photo dislay, each photo taking up half a page, explaining that "sensational success is predicted" while introducing the "foeign made film", "one of the most important European productions". The photocaptions pointed out the films "curious haunting beauty." The British peridical Pictures and Picturegoer during 1923did in fact approach genre theory by combining then recent early examples of the mystery thriller, including John BArrymore in his appearance in Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, in the article Macabre Movies, distinguishing "The Golem" as a "picturization of a mediaeval legend" but comparing its "Cubist scenery" with that of "Doctor Caligari" with its half-lit ineteriors.
Wegner had given a lecture during 1916 entitled "The Artistic Possibilities of Cinema" as a proponent of "cinematic lyricism" where lines would appear then change as moving surfaces.
Motion Picture World, rather, during 1921 chose to begin with the film's "subject matter" and its "preposteruous story". "He has grasped the most essential fact about his duties as a director- to tell a story in action and develop characters at the same time. Every foot of film advances the progress of the story. There are no cutbacks, no halts for bits of local color or parenthetical description of any of the characters. He knows the meaning of the word drama."
the oeriodical Motion Picture News during 1921 noted, "Wegner deserves double credit for he also plays the tile role and makes it an unforgettable figure." Silent Film Silent Film Lon Chaney
12 Sep 15:43

Scott Lord Silent Film: Old Time Movies Castle Films 8mm

12 Sep 15:43

Scott Lord Silent Film: Boston Common and Proper (Phillip M Brown)

12 Sep 15:43

Silent Film Magazine Art: Bluebird Photoplays

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12 Sep 15:42

Donna's favorite downtown Boston orange juice and the adjacent former offices of Houghton Mifflin Company

12 Sep 15:42

Donna's favorite downtown Boston orange juice and the adjacent former offices of Houghton Mifflin Company

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12 Sep 15:42

Donna's favorite downtown Boston orange juice and the adjacent former offices of Houghton Mifflin Company

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12 Sep 15:42

Sherlock Holmes Fatal Hour

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Sherlock Holmes The Man WithTheTwisted Lip

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Sherlock Holmes Murder At The Baskervilles

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12 Sep 15:41

Sherlock Holmes- Sign of the Four

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Sherlock Holmes: Silent Film

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Sherlock Holmes Murder At The Baskervilles

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Arthur Wontner As Sherlock Holmes in he Triumph of S...

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Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill...

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Basil Rathbone in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Wea...

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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes

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12 Sep 15:41

Scott Lord: Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932)

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Sherlock Holmes: Speckled Band

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31 Aug 01:41

Silent Film

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31 Aug 01:41

Scott Lord Mystery: Murder at the Matinee

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The above film is revolves around a murder at a seance. I liked the feel of it enough to add a number of films that could be screened to in part make up a festival. Please view any of the below films that seem to be of interest.








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Ghost-CastleFilms 8mm

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31 Aug 01:41

Mystery from Monogram Studios, Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong

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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (Malcom St Clai...

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