SWEDISH FILMS: ThE SILENT FILM YEARS

THIS PERIOD HAS A LOT OF LOST FILMS… AND I MEAN A LOT….

The main reason why so many films are lost is the fire which broke out in Svensk Filmindustri’s storage facilities in Vinterviken in September 1941. All original negatives of fiction and feature length films from the silent era were stored there; films either produced by Svensk Filmindustri or its predecessor Svenska Biografteatern, or films produced by studios later acquired by Svensk Filmindustri, which means the vast majority of all Swedish silent films.

That more than 45 % of the films from this period still exist is due to the fact that viewing...