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Silent Film Library Established (Delineator, 1937)
Living, as we do, in the age of Blockbuster and Netflicks the whole idea of being able to watch a film that is twenty years old does not seem to be a terribly queer idea. Yet for the folks who first read the the attached article it was a time when there weren't any motion picture revival theaters whatever; once a film had left the local theater, it was indeed gone and highly unlikely to be seen again. The reigning film studios were not likely to establish a public repository for such purposes; they are always interested in tomorrow's movies, not yesterday's. This article is about the 1935 founding of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library. Established with funding by the Rockefeller Foundation, today the MOMA Film Library is comprised of more than 14,000 films and 4 million film stills.
| The Career of Lilian Gish (Script Magazine, 1942)
Attached is a decidedly "pro" Lilian Gish (1893 – 1993) article concerning the silent film actresses' meteoric rise under the direction of D.W. Griffith, her mediocrity when paired with other directors and her much appreciated march on Broadway.
"Lilian Gish is the damozel of Arthurian legend, tendered in terms of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Her heroines perpetually hover in filtered half-lights, linger in attitudes of romantical despair. They forever drift farther from reality than the dream, and no matter how humble their actual origins, the actress invariably weaves them of the dusk-blues, the dawn-golds of medieval tapestries."
| Wings: Directed by William Wellman (Life, 1927)
Appearing in an issue of (the old) "Life Magazine", that was almost entirely devoted to the 1927 American Legion convention in Paris, was this Robert Sherwood review of the blockbuster silent film "Wings". Directed by an American Air Corps veteran, William Wellman (1896 –1975), "Wings" was the only silent film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture (at that time the category was titled "Most Outstanding Production"):"It is the story of two extremely youthful officers in the American air service during the war. We can see them going through the training mill in Texas, dueling with a German 'circus' above the clouds, raking communication roads with machine-gun fire and finally facing each other in a terrific life-and-death struggle in the air....The two heroes are played, and played remarkably well, by Charles (Buddy) Rogers and Richard Arlen...Clara Bow, who appears as the saccharine heroine, is, I regret to say, not so good." Click here to read magazine articles about D.W. Griffith. *Watch the Exciting Trailer of William Wellman's film, WINGS*
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