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Film · Vitagraph · 1906

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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

26Leave it.

Blackton's board moves for a few minutes, and then the night is over.

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The review

J. Stuart Blackton draws faces on a board and they change. That is the whole event. A few minutes, a child can watch it, and I was glad it ended before anyone asked for a story. The drawing moves. I don't have more plot to offer, because there isn't any.

This sits before Gertie, and it is not a later cartoon studio. Don't dress a chalkboard up as a childhood. It's a clever minute from Vitagraph in 1906. If the kids laugh at a face that won't sit still, fine. Then put something with people in it, or just go to bed.

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The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Cars 2

39 instead of 26

Cars 2 is still a animation film, and it scores 39 instead of 26. What you gain is household: Friendship.

The eight

5
Industry
Blackton's job is the drawing, and the moving face is the film.
1
Household
Faces on a board, with no parent, child, or marriage.
1
Piety
No one is tempted, and no conscience has anything to stop.
1
Courage
Nothing is risked but a chalk face that changes.
1
Republic
No neighbor, no law, no town; a board in a short.
4
Temperance
A few minutes, and it does not train you to beg another reel.
5
Truth
The trick is shown as a drawing that moves, not a lie.
3
Stewardship
It leaves a moving chalk face, before Gertie, and stops.

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Film · MGM · 1958

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Gigi

26Leave it.

A best picture. The training is the rot, and the marriage at the end does not redeem the school.

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The review

It won the best picture of its year, and the award does not change the curriculum. A grandmother and an aunt are training a young woman in Paris to be the mistress of a rich man: how to choose jewels, how to behave at the table, how to be expensive. The young man who has been wandering through other such arrangements decides he wants this one, and the happy ending is that he marries her instead. The film expects the marriage to retire the question.

It does not. The school was the story, and the school is a preparation of a girl for a man's use. The songs are lovely and the loveliness is the danger, because loveliness is how the curriculum gets past a room. I would not put it on for a young woman as a charming antique. If adults watch it as history, say what the aunt was actually teaching before the last waltz. The last waltz is not a pardon.

Journal

Keep Gigi in the record.

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Live Historic number 26. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

36 instead of 26

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is still a musical film, and it scores 36 instead of 26. What you gain is truth: It tells the truth that the avenger cannot see: the woman he mourns is in the room.