14 Aug 07:27
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14 Aug 07:26
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23 Jul 00:19
by Scott Lord on Silent Film, Scott Lord on Mystery Film
23 Jul 00:19
by Scott Lord on Silent Film, Scott Lord on Mystery Film
23 Jul 00:19
by Scott Lord on Silent Film, Scott Lord on Mystery Film
23 Jul 00:19
by Scott Lord on Silent Film, Scott Lord on Mystery Film
19 Jul 03:42
by Scott Lord on Silent Film, Scott Lord on Mystery Film
The 1923 Clara Bow film "The Pill Pounder" (two reels) was discovered to exist when a 35 millimeter print was found in 2024, it evidently having been purchased unknowingly at an auction for twenty dollars.
Directed in 1925 by Charles Giblyn, the six reel film "The Adventurous Sex", starring Clara Bow is presumed to be a
lost silent film, with no surviving copies existing.
Motion Picture News avoided flattering the direction of "Parisian Love", "Weak and wandering. Thrill stuff poorly executed, action draggy, footage wasted."
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19 Jul 03:42
by Scott Lord on Silent Film, Scott Lord on Mystery Film
Arthur Knight, in his volume The Liveliest Art, views "The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari" as one of the most famous silent films ever made. Knight explains, "Two things distinguished 'Caligari' as a film: the daring of the story-within-a-story and the startling originality of its decor." Knight implies the thematic elements are articulated in the mise-en-scene of the film, remarking upon its "obviously 'artistic' settings (related nith to the stage work of the expressionists and to the experiments of the cubist painters". Leo Braudy, in his volume The World in a Frame, gives The Cabinet of Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene during
1921, as an example of a "closed film", where the director creates his own space, a unique and specific diegetic backdrop, as opposed to an "open film" where the story finds it own enviornment in which events are to take place. Not only is characterization what allows narrativity, but where the stage us set allows theme and mood to carry the storyline.
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