Scott Lord Silent Film
I am revising my web pages on silent film, particularly after having begun reading two very seminal textbooks, Film Until Now, by Paul Rotha and Scandinavian Film, by Forsyth Hardy. There is always the possibility that a third textbook will be with my material on Silent Film Magazine cover art, so during coffee breaks I'm glancing through full page magazine advertisements that act as movie posters.
Meanwhile, if you check my blogs, I'll be spending some of the end of the summer on the ocean and have a little time before we'll be there. It will be near where the poem The Wreck of the Hesperus, by Longfellow, takes place- last year we had a romantic moonlight walk near the house of a painter, Fitz Hugh Lane, after having had dinner.
Scott Lord Silent Film: Mary Pickford in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(Neilan, 1917)
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In addition to directing Mary Pickford in “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”,
during 1917, Marshall Neilan directed Pickford in the film “The Little
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