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Swedish Silent Film Blog Archive

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The website garbo-seastrom.blogspot.com, titled "Swedish Silent Film," is a specialized historical and film-studies archive maintained by Scott Lord.

The site is a deep-dive resource focused on the "Golden Age" of Swedish silent cinema and its transition into the Hollywood studio system. It is particularly noted for its focus on the careers of Greta Garbo, Victor Sjöström (known in Hollywood as Victor Seastrom), and Mauritz Stiller.

Key Features and Content:

  • "Lost Films in Found Magazines": A recurring theme where the author uses vintage fan magazines (like Photoplay, Motion Picture, and Screenland), reviews, and advertisements from the 1920s to reconstruct or provide context for silent films that are now lost or physically deteriorated.

  • Archival Poetics: The blog uses an academic and theoretical lens to analyze early screen culture. It examines films like The Torrent (1926) and A Woman of Affairs (1929) not just as movies, but as collections of iconography and "modernity."

  • Biographical Research: It provides extensive coverage of the Swedish origins of major stars and directors, tracking their move from Stockholm to America. It includes rare photos, fashion sketches (such as "What the Garbo Girl should Wear"), and contemporary accounts of their private lives.

  • Visual Documentation: The site is heavily illustrated with high-quality scans of vintage film stills, portraits, and magazine clippings, making it a valuable visual archive.

  • Scope: While the primary focus is Swedish talent, it also covers related figures of the era like Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Lillian Gish, and Lars Hanson.

The blog is highly regarded by film historians and fans of classic cinema for its ability to connect early 20th-century literature, fashion, and social phenomena to the evolution of the motion picture.

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Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, 1945

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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Greatest Question (D.W. Griffith, 1919)

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In her autobiography The Movies, Mr.Griffith and Me, actress Lillian Gish writes that D.W. Griffith had "hastily filmed" "The Greatest Question", implying that it was the first in a three film assignment from his new studio, First National. Gish notes that the films, which inclunded "The Idol Dancer" and 'The Love Flower", were not successful. "The cost of picture making had risen so high that even without other debts he was always courting complete ruin."
With D.W. Griffith at First National was cinematographer G.W. Bitzer.
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Scott Lord on Silent Film - YouTube

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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Mystery of Dr. Fu Man Chu, The Sacred Order (Stoll, 1923)

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Scott Lord on Film: The Scarlet Letter (Robert Vignola, 1934)

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