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Although "The President" (Praesidenten, 1919), written and directed by Carl Th. Dreyer, photographed by Hans Vaage, and having starred Elith Pio and Olga Raphael-Linden, is not always distinguished as remarkable, it is one of the only two films that Carl Th. Dreyer made in Denmark, his later establishing a small body of work that would be indelible upon filmmaking, hi films, disparate stylistically, each differeing in their use of technique. Dreyer has been quoted as having remarked upon his having tried to find a style that would have value for only a single film. Casper Tybjerg, University of Copenhagen, highlights the use of "intricate flashback narrative structure" in Dreyer's directorial debut.
In his article "Forms of the Intangible: Carl Dreyer and the concept of Transcendental Style", Scholar Casper Tybjerg looks at Paul Schraeder's concept of there being an "aesthetic dimension of religious films" and accordingly a transcendental style to express spiritual experience by "stylizing" reality.
In his volume The Cinema of Carl Dreyer, author Tom Milne writes about the " comparatively sophisticated montage technique" used in the film, "Dreyer was obviously bent on manufacturing his emotions and built up an elaborate flshback technique borrowed from Griffith...All these time switches and parallels are obviously designed to strike resonant sparks off each other, but instead through their own comtrivance, serve merely to point up the grotesque contrivance of the whole story."
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The extratextural discourse of Hollywood in behind the scenes footage of a studio tour featuring John Barrymore, Mae Marsh, Marie Prevost, Tom Mix snd Frank Lloyd.
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The extratextural discourse of Hollywood in a behind the scenes footage of a studio tour including a brief shot of the on the set shooting of a presumed lost film, the serial "Mystery Pilot" of which there are no surviving copies.
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Author Ron Haydock, in his volume Deerstalker: Holmes and Watson on screen, is succinct in describing the first appearance of Arthur Conon Doyle's Sherlock Holmes on screen, "Directed by Arthur Marvin, Edison's Sherlock Holmes film was shot with only one set, and one strait-on full shot camera angle and can be viewed time and again without boredom. It's fast, entertaining and over before you would like it to be."
Author David Stuart Davies, in his volume Holmes of the Movies, The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes, acknowledges as part of the consensus, and there seems to be no reference to the author Emil Gaboriau who wrote in 1868 in the films of Georges Melies, that an unknown actor in the 1903 film "Sherlock Holmes Baffled" from the American Mutoscope and Bioscope was the first on screen appearance of Sherlock Holmes and first adaptation of the cannon written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In regard to how early, Stuart Davies points out that it was filmed the same yeart that "The Empty House" was published in the Strand Magazine and I in fact would mention that in a discussion of The Cinema of Attractions/The Cinema of Narrative Integration that it was released the same year as "The Great Train Robbery" from the competing Edison Manufacturing Company. "The audience at seeing the film may also have been baffled, for the film has no recognizable plot and seems to be little more than a series of tableaux of a melodramatic nature without any real continuity."
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Goldwyn in 1923 released an eight reel adaptation of Vanity Fair with actress Mabel Balin starring as Becky Sharp, written, directed and produced by Hugo Balin. The film is presumed lost, with no existing copies surviving. A 1922 film adaptation was directed by W.C. Rowden during 1922. Thomas A. Edison Incorporated released Vanity Fair in seven reels, directed by Eugene Nowland, in 1915. Silent Film Hollywood, Color and Tint in 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. Silent Horror Film Silent Horror Film Silent Horror Film Movie Posters