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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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My conclusion from all of this is that we need to watch a lot more pre-1915 films.
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AN UNSULLIED SHIELD (1913) is an early (though not the earliest) example of the "ancestors climb down from their portraits" trope. A young wastrel is shamed for his partying ways by a mystic television program showing his forebears dying in combat.
Le bang! Le bang bang! Hurhurhur! And thank goodness stunts got a little safer so they didn't have to keep dropping their leading man onto a rolling train (you can tell from the dropped hat that this was not a slow train sped up via undercranking, they just had the poor man jump!)
(distant scraping sound) (grows louder) (I enter the room pushing a soapbox) (gets on) MOVIES HAVEN'T HAD AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT SINCE 1916 OR THEREABOUTS
But in the meantime, just watch anything directed by Jean Durand. One of the most wonderfully weird people to ever direct a movie and he deserves to be better known
It doesn't help that the film's setup would have Bertie Wooster remarking on what a sap the hero is. Still, it does have Sally Rand and Franklin Pangborn in supporting roles, so that's fun
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