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31 Jul 04:25

Scott Lord Silent Film: Musgrave Ritual (George Treville, 1912)

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31 Jul 04:25

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Copper Beeches (Calliard, 1912)

"THe Copper Beeches" in which actor Georges Trevilles starred as rhe detective Sherlock Holmes, was directed by Adrian Calliard during 1912.
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31 Jul 04:25

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Cardinal’s Conspiracy (D.W. Griffith, 1909)

Notably, Mary Pickford and James Kirkwood, who would later become her director, appear under the direction of D. W. Griffith in the one reeler "The Cardinal's Conspiracy", along with Mack Sennet as well as Griffith's wife Linda Ardvidson and actress Kate Bruce. The film was photographed by G.W. Bitzer for the Biograph Film Company.
The periodical Moving Picture World reviewed the film with an early description approaching genre theory. "The picture is of the costume kind. In other words, one, when looking at it, has gone to the pages of Stanely Weyman, Henry Harland or Morris Hewitt for his inspiration. We breathe the atmosphere of court life and are taken back, as it were, into a far more romantic period than the present." The periodical continued by regretting that they had viewed the film in "cold monochrome" rather than a more vibrant spectrum of pageant. Biograph Films had advertised the film in the previous issue of Moving Picture World, sharing the full page with Selig, Independent and Kalem studios. Paired with the film "Friend of the Family", Biograph proclaimed that in the film "The Cardinal's Conspiracy", "The subject is elaborately staged, comprising some of the most beautiful exterior scenes ever shown."In her autobiography When The Movies Were Young, Griffith's wife Linda Arvidson sees the film as the first important screen characterization for actor Frank Powell, adding him to the "remarkable trio" at Biograph of actors Frank Powell, James Kirkwood and Henry B. Walthall. Tom Gunning points to the film belonging to a period when a cinema of narrative integration in fact centered on characterization and accordingly developed film technique with that in mind. To accomadate that narrative integration and its movement to a versimilar acting rather than the florid, histrionic gestures of a filmed theater, Griffith would bring the camera into the story. Gunning writes, "Pickford surpasses any other Biograph actress in the mastery of the new versimilar style...Pickford generally employs a slower pace and her guestures appear intended to reveal psychological traits through behavior."
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31 Jul 04:25

Rainbow from our apartment

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Scott Lord Wednesday we took a boat ride down The Charles River from the Charles River Yacht Club to the Weld Boat House and back and had lunch there at the Charles River Yact Club. We go once a year passed the Citgo sign and Polaroid building and during other years there was a "master of ceremonies" who told the joke: How do you make a honeymoon salad? Lettuce Alone, No Dressing. I added : Cant elope tonight, Rain Dear, a pea souper. We in fact had beautiful weather.

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31 Jul 04:25

Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman 1917

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31 Jul 04:25

The Moonstone

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31 Jul 04:24

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31 Jul 04:24

The Cat and the Canary (1927)

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31 Jul 04:24

The Vampire Bat and The Speckled Band

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31 Jul 04:24

Greta Garbo, Victor Sjostrom as Seastrom, Mauritz Stiller, John Brunius: Scandinavian Silent Film: Scott Lord Silent Film: The White Rose (D.W. Griff...

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31 Jul 04:24

Greta Garbo: Lady to Love (Victor Seastrom)

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Greta Garbo: Lady to Love (Victor Seastrom): Vilma Banky under the direction of Victor Sjsotrom . Victor Sjostrom subsequently filmed the sound film silent film

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31 Jul 04:24