Jon Mirsalis on Piano

Winsome Mary Pickford is typically engaging as the title character of this Elizabethan romance, the willful young heiress of Haddon Hall whose love for the scion of a rival house leads to personal and political intrigue. But the Mary Pickford Company was clearly banking on the grandeur of the film's settings as well as the charm of its star: they even spent $21,000 to transform New York's Criterion Theater into a replica of Haddon Hall for the opening night. Golden Gate Park stands in for rural England in some of the more spectacular scenes.

Malevich:

"The artist, primarily the painter, has had and continues to have an enormous influence on directors and cameramen purely in their treatment of frame composition and lighting. In Dorothy Vernon, nearly half of the frames (moments) of the picture are structured in such a way that in the end you cannot tell - is it a photograph taken in the Louvre of a painting dating back to Gainsborough, or is it a film shot presently, with living people?" (1926)