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17 Jul 04:08

Monogram Studios, Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong

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17 Jul 04:08

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

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17 Jul 04:08

The beautiful Fay Wray in The Vampire Bat

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17 Jul 04:08

Sherlock Holmes Trailers-SpiderWoman

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17 Jul 04:08

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ (Ali...

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17 Jul 04:08

Scott Lord on Scandinavian Silent Film: Desdemona (August Blom, 1911)

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17 Jul 04:07

Scott Lord Silent Film: M’Liss (Neilan, 1918)

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17 Jul 04:07

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Lesser Evil (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1912)

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The Lesser of Evil starred actresses Blanche Sweet and Mae Marsh and was directed for Biograph by D.W. Griffithduring 1912. The film was photographed by G.W. Bitzer. Silent Film Biograph Film Company
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17 Jul 04:07

Scott Lord Silent Film: Stella Maris (Neilan, 1918)

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Mary Picford's director Marshall Neilan was quoted by Peter Milne during 1922 in the volume Motion Picture Directing. "Above all, I consider the director's appreciation of the human side of life his greatest assest. Unless a director is human down to the bery earth and appreciative of the tings in life that are common to the ordinary mortal, he cannot hope to any degree of success." Silent Film Mary Pickford Mary Pickford
17 Jul 04:07

Scott Lord Scandinavian Film: Lars Hanson in A Dangerous Proposal (Ett Farlit Frieri, Rune Carlsten, 1919)

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The first film directed by Rune Carlsten, an adaptation of a story by Bjornestejerne Bjornson which Carlsten coscripted with Sam Ask, was for Filmindustri Skandia, a short lived merger which shortly thereafter merged again, other directors for the company having been Elis Ellis and John Brunius. "A Dangerous Wooing/A Dangerous Courtshipt" (Ett Farlit Frieri) was the first of five films directed by Rune Carlsten to be photographed by Raol Reynolds. The film stars actress Gun Cronvall in her only on screen performance. Actor Lars Hanson also during 1919 starred underthe direction of Mauritz Stiller with actress Greta Almroth in the film "The Song of the Scarlet Flower" as well as under the direction of Swedish Silent Film director John Brunius in the 1919 film "Synnove Solbakken", with actress Karen Molander, who, then married to director Gustaf Molander, was later to become Lars Hanson's wife. Silent Film Lars Hanson Victor Sjostrom
17 Jul 04:07

Writing the Photoplay

by Scott Lord on Silent Film
One automatically wonders what was entailed in the writing of photoplays when coming across the term "spot continuity". It was described during 1923 as a script writing technique of making a brief outline listing only the "big situations" or "highspots" in the storyline of a silent film. That year "continuity" was described as the indispensible "director's guide", a transcription of the story with division of scene indicated and specific shots, inserts, perhaps dissolves, being noted, as in a "continuity script". A continuity writer would be assigned to construct it from the scenario, which would be amended by a "scene plot", an itemized list of scenes designating their respective sets and locations.
A manual for the photoplaywright, written a year earlier during 1922, giving the scenario as being "a play in scenes" and the "continuity writer" as a dramaturgist, described "scenarist" as a generic synonym for playwright of screen dramatist. A "synoptist" was responsible for a detailed synopsis, the legnth of which was that of a short story, and it detailed the dramatic story without dialougue. Continuity and synopsis were the same, differing only in dramatic description, the former being scenario, the latter synoptic narrative.
The manual advised the photoplawright that complications should be limited when constructing underplots or cross plots in order to achieve a plot unity and a unity of structure.
Scenario credits, although more often than not having been given to a screenwriter, frequently were shared with the film's director or given solely to the director. Magazine advertisements in 1922 for the film "Notoriety" promoted the film by giving Clara Beranger credit for having written the story especially for director William De Mille. D. W. Griffith
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17 Jul 04:07

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Unbeliever (Alan Crosland, Edison Company, 1...

by Scott Lord on Silent Film
The Edison Company released its last film as a studio, "The Unbeliever" (Alan Crosland, six reels) in 1918. The periodical Motion Picture News seems to have been kept in the dark that it would be the swan song of the studion, claiming that the Edison Company viewed the film as their "greatest contribution to the screen".
Not incidentally, the term "one sheet" used to describe the standard size of movie posters began with the Edison photoplay; it was a size of approximately 27 inches by 41 inches often included a synopsis of the plotline of the film. Silent Film
17 Jul 04:06

The Photoplay: Silent Film Movie Posters

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17 Jul 04:06

The Photoplay: Silent Film Movie Posters

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17 Jul 04:06

Scott Lord Silent Film: Brass (Sidney Franklin, 1922)

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"Brass" (nine reels), directed in 1922 by Sidney Franklin and starring actresses Marie Prevost, Rosmary Church and Lucy Baldwin was one of the several films that year photographed by cinematographer Norbert Brodine. Sidney A. Fraklin that year directed the films "East is West", "Primitive Lover" and Smilin' Through".
During 1920, Sidney Franklin directed Conrad Nagel, Rosemary Theby and Sylvia Breamer in the film "Unseen Forces" (six teels). Considered to be a lost silent film, a copy was found during 2010.
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17 Jul 04:06

The Photoplay: Silent Film Lobby Cards, D.W. Griffith

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17 Jul 03:53

Sequel to The Vampire Bat: Condemned to Live (Strayer,1935) with Misha Auer

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Please include the film beneath as a double feature or matinee as you sit fit:


also directed by Frank Strayer is the mystery film below:


Scott Lord Mystery
17 Jul 03:52

Scott Lord: Sherlock Holmes- Sign of the Four

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17 Jul 03:52

Scott Lord: Sherlock Holmes- A Study In Scarlet

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17 Jul 03:52

Scott Lord: Silent Sherlock Holmes

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17 Jul 03:52

Scott Lord Sherlock Holmes Fatal Hour

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17 Jul 03:52

Scott Lord: Sherlock Holmes Speckled Band

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17 Jul 03:51

The Vampire Bat and The Speckled Band

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17 Jul 03:51

Warner Oland In The Drums of Jeopardy

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17 Jul 03:51

the beautiful Fay Wray in The Evil Mind

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17 Jul 03:51

Scott Lord Mystery: E.G Marshall in CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Sunset to...

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17 Jul 03:51

Sherlock Holmes Trailers-Pearl of Death

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17 Jul 03:50

Scott Lord Mystery; The Films of Frank Strayer

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Please screen the above film directed by Frank Strayer and those films below in any film festival or matinee that you see fit.






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17 Jul 03:50

Scott Lord Mystery: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in Woman in Green ...

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17 Jul 03:50

Scott Lord Mystery:Countess Dracula (1971)

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