Motion Picture World Magazine reviewed the one reel film "Lady Godiva" directed by J.Stuart Blackton for the Vitagraph Company of America with Julia Swayne Gordon in the titular role, "There are many dramatic situations in this picture, especially where the appearance of of Lady Godiva is anticipated as she is about to start upon her journey...This climax touches our sympathy and we grasp the refinement and culture dispalyed by Miss Swayne in acting this part part so admirably and sucessfully, a matter not easy to accomplish." Scott Lord Scott Lord Scott Lord Silent Film

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Although "The President" (Praesidenten, 1919), written and directed by Carl Th. Dreyer, photographed by Hans Vaage, and having starred Elith Pio and Olga Raphael-Linden, is not always distinguished as remarkable, it is one of the only two films that Carl Th. Dreyer made in Denmark, his later establishing a small body of work that would be indelible upon filmmaking, hi films, disparate stylistically, each differeing in their use of technique. Dreyer has been quoted as having remarked upon his having tried to find a style that would have value for only a single film. Casper Tybjerg, University of Copenhagen, highlights the use of "intricate flashback narrative structure" in Dreyer's directorial debut.
In his article "Forms of the Intangible: Carl Dreyer and the concept of Transcendental Style", Scholar Casper Tybjerg looks at Paul Schraeder's concept of there being an "aesthetic dimension of religious films" and accordingly a transcendental style to express spiritual experience by "stylizing" reality.
In his volume The Cinema of Carl Dreyer, author Tom Milne writes about the " comparatively sophisticated montage technique" used in the film, "Dreyer was obviously bent on manufacturing his emotions and built up an elaborate flshback technique borrowed from Griffith...All these time switches and parallels are obviously designed to strike resonant sparks off each other, but instead through their own comtrivance, serve merely to point up the grotesque contrivance of the whole story."
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