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The TEN Best Screen Dramas
d^Screenland has been canvassing the foremost film authorities in America for a vote upon the ten most significant screenplays ever made. Thk canvass will continue in subsequent numbers
ADOLPH ZUKOR, president of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation:
Queen Elizabeth
A Good Little Devil
The Bargain
The Birth of a Nation
Shoulder Arms
Passion
The Golem
The Toll of the Sea
Hollywood
The Covered Wagon
ALISON SMITH,
of The Evening Mail:
The Golem
Nanook of the North
Doctor Caligari
Crainq uebille
The Kid
The Pilgrim
Shoulder Arms
The Birth of a Nation(rese7v£ionS) The Covered Wagon (reservations) The Dempsey-Firpo fight pictures
MORRIS GEST, the famous theatrical producer:
The Birth of a Nation Intolerance Way Down East Broken Blossoms Orphans of the Storm The Kid Shoulder Arms
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse When Knight hood Was in Flower Carmen, with Farrar
NOTE
Screen land will continue its canvass of notables for the ten best pictures next month. And the opinions of a number of our readers will be presented also.
Mr. Zukor, in his list given above, gave several interesting reasons for his selections. He picked Queen Elizabeth, because it presented "the first famous stage player in a famous play." A Good Little Devil was named because it was "the first feature picture that started Mary Pickford on her career as a star and really the forerunner of all starring pictures." The Bargain comes into his reckoning because it was "the first William S. Hart screenplay and the forerunner of all the Western pictures." The Toll of Sea was named by Mr. Zukor for the reason that it was "the first feature film to be photographed by color process."
LUELLA O. PARSONS, moving picture editor of The Morning Telegraph:
The Birth of a Nation
The Covered Wagon
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Kid
Nanook of the North
Grandma' s Boy
Little Old New York
When Kn igh thood Was in Flower
Rosita
Down to the Sea in Ships
DANIEL FROHMAN, the veteran of the stage and screen:
The Birth of a Nation
Robin Hood
Nanook of the North
The Miracle Man
Hollywood
Male and Female
Passion
Orphans of the Storm Cabiria
The Covered Wagon ,
f^Screenland would like to know what ten motion pictures you consider to be the milestones of cinema progress. Write to the Editor and give him your chosen list of ten.
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