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Why we should not trust Bluesky's auto-mod: For my first trick, I will show it labeling a Victorian trick film, the Keystone Cops, and a stylized scene of hell as various forms of "adult content" My thread will not show if you have your default adult content settings on.
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My conclusion from all of this is that we need to watch a lot more pre-1915 films.
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Over the weekend, someone on Bluesky told me they "find it hard to believe" that a white supremacist talking point (claims of BIRTH OF A NATION's art and innovation were manufactur...
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Good lord people, you do not have to hand it to BIRTH OF A NATION, you do understand that, right?
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The 1921 French epic L'ATLANTIDE is slower than molasses and I love it so. Shot on location in Algeria and starring Stacia Napierkowska as Queen Antinea, who kidnaps French soldier...
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The 1900s-1910s had 1860s nostalgia HARD. The 1920s were all-in for 1880s-1900s nostalgia. Legal booze! Nobody had ever heard of a World War! After WWII, nostalgia for 1900-1913...
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People expect comedies to be hits with 1900s plots and they don't even choose the really unique plots. Remake THE ? MOTORIST in which a motoring couple run over a traffic cop and escape into outer space
GETTING GERTIE'S GARTER (1927) is a film that sounds spicy out of context-- a man tries to get a garter with his photo inside from his showgirl ex-- but the stage play was panned for being timid, mild, and decidedly unsexy. The film tries but it's all safe as milk.
And there were women who just kept their long, curly hair, Roaring Twenties cliches be damned.
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A lot (and I mean A LOT) of self-proclaimed liberals and progressives and general "not a racist bone in my body" declare that they can look past the racism of BIRTH OF A NATION to see the art because they are immune to propaganda. While parroting debunked propaganda about what the film "invented"
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew were an acting-writing-directing duo who specialized in short domestic comedies that would form the foundation of the sitcom. The Vitagraph company billed them as counterprogamming to rough slapstick.
Ford Sterling shoots the Keystone Cops and then comically chokes himself. Mind you, I can post a serious murder from the same era and not hear a peep
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