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14 Aug 07:28

Scott Lord Silent Film: Outside the Law (Tod Browning, 1920)

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14 Aug 07:28

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Wicked Darling (Browning, 1919)

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14 Aug 07:28

Scott Lord Silent Film: Shadows (Forman, 1922)

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14 Aug 07:27

Scott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in Mr. Wu (William Nigh, 1927)

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14 Aug 07:27

Scott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in The Unholy Three (Tod Browning, 1925)

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14 Aug 07:25

Scott Lord on Silent Film Hollywood, Lost Silent Film, Swedish Silent Film, Danish Silent Film: Scott Lord Silent Film: Linda Arvidson in The Adventures of Dollie (D.W....

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19 Jul 03:42

Scott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in Mr. Wu (William Nigh, 1927)

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19 Jul 03:42

Scott Lord on Silent Film Hollywood, Lost Silent Film, Swedish Silent Film, Danish Silent Film: Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown, 1926)

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19 Jul 03:42

Scott Lord on Silent Film Hollywood, Lost Silent Film, Swedish Silent Film, Danish Silent Film: Greta Garbo in The Kiss (Feyder/Daniels, 1929)

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19 Jul 03:42

Scott Lord on Silent Film Hollywood, Lost Silent Film, Swedish Silent Film, Danish Silent Film: Silent Film 1913

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19 Jul 03:42

Scott Lord Silent Film: Corner in Wheat (D.W. Griffith, Biograph, 1909)

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19 Jul 03:42

Scott Lord Silent Film: The Water Nymph (Sennett, Keystone, 1912)

The 1912 directorial debut of Mack Sennett for the Keystone Film Company, "The Water Nymph" starred actress Mabel Normand. Film historian Arthur Knight, in his volume The Liveliest Art, "At first Sennett was Keystone's director, star, idea man, and sometimes he even helped out on the camera. Stories were improvised on the spot...The key scenes, the scenes involving incident, would be caught almost on the fly...Before long Sennett, like Ince, was forced to withdraw from direct participation in his comedies and become producer." Silent Film

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19 Jul 03:42

Swedish Silent Film: Monastery of Sendomir (Klostret I Sendomir, Victor Sjostrom,1920)

Bo Florin, Stockholm University, in his volume Transition and Transformation, Victor Sjostrom in Hollywood 1923-1930, points to Victor Sjostrom's use of dissolves in the film "Monastery of Sedomir" as "transformatory devices", to thematiclly link two images. "The dissolve works, in other words, as an independent device, which does not in this context recieve any clarifying support from any other narrative patterns." The character, and the setting in which he placed, change as motif with the dissolve.
"The Monastery of Sendomir" (Klostret i Sendomir) was written and directed for Svenska Biografteatern by Victor Sjostrom during 1920. Photographed by Henrik Jaenzon the film starred actresses Tora Teje, Renee Bjorling and Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson. The screenplay was adapted from a short story by Franz Grillparzer that, despite whatever reason Sjostrom had for choosing the material, had been filmed a year earlier, in Germany, by director Rudolph Meinert, starring actress Ellen Richter.
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The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjostrom, 1920) Please screen the films below directed in Sweden by Victor Sjostrom as any double feature you see fit.