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Scott Lord:Double Feature-The Vampire Bat and The Speckled Band

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Scott Lord Mystery: Dragonwyck (Mankiewicz, 1946)

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

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Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Women of Paris (Parisiskor, Gustaf Molan...

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The photographer of the film wasJulius Jaenzon. Swedish Silent Film Gustaf Molander Swedish Silent Film Gustaf Molander Gustaf Molander
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Girl and Her Trust (Griffith, Biograph, 1912)

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