Greta Garbo drawn by Paul Rotha, Film Critic

This appeared in Close Up magazine during 1930. it is a modern rendering of Greta Garbo drawn by the esteemed author Paul Rotha.

After the death of Mauritz Stiller and Einar Hanson, in the 1931 volume Film Till Now, Paul Rotha groups Greta Garbo with the other Europen actors and directors, including Greta Nissen, Lars Hanson and Victor Sjostrom who had "deserted the sinking ship and settled down in California", "bought by dollars" and sent to the "Hollywood groove of living". He attributes a lyricism to the films of the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film, the period during which Greta Garbo had made her film debut under the direction of Mauritz Stiller, one with a "feeling for depth and width".

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

Scott Lord Silent Film: Movie Museum Reel One (Kiliam, Everson, Knight)

Silent Film Movie Museum Reel Two Silent Film


Silent Film Movie Museum Reel Three Silent Film Movie Museum Reel Four
Paul Killiam opens his series on "the first quarter century of the movies" with the cinema of attractions and a brief section of "newsreel footage" of Fifth Avenue in New York City. It is mostly a compilation reel from the "Killiam Collection", perhaps selected or presented seemingly at random. The film abruptly cuts to a one reel example of the cinema of narrative integration from D.W. Griffith at Biograph.

Killiam televised silent films from the library of the Museum of Modern Art with his narration to suit then modern audiences while hosting The Paul Killiam Show, among the films featured having been "A Daughter of the Wilderness" (Edison Company, 1913) starring actresses Mary Fuller and Elsie MacLeod. The "Movie Museum" series aired in 1954.

Lost Silent Film

Scott Lord Silent Film: Movie Museum, Reel Two (Killiam, Everson, Knight)

Silent Film Movie Museum Reel One


Silent Film Movie Museum Reel Three Lost Silent Film