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Film · Edison · 1902

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New York City in a Blizzard

46Watch it awake.

People and horses in a snowstorm, a record of a day, and not a tale at all.

The review

People and horses move through a storm. That is the reel. Edison, 1902, an actuality, a street in snow. A house can watch it. There is no story. The weather is the picture. It is a record of a day, not a tale, and I stopped waiting for a hero very early.

What stayed was the ordinary effort. Somebody still has to get a horse along the street. I don't know their names, and the film doesn't care to tell me. It also doesn't dress the day up. If you want a plot you will be bored, and that boredom is on you. A city in a blizzard is enough picture for one sitting.

Journal

Keep New York City in a Blizzard in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage 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

Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story

56 instead of 46

Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story is still a documentary film, and it scores 56 instead of 46. What you gain is courage: She says the frightening thing in front of a room, and she does it again the next night.

The eight

6
Industry
People and horses keep moving through the storm; the street is at work.
2
Household
A public street in snow, and no one household is the life of it.
2
Piety
The weather stops no one; there is no conscience in the frame.
3
Courage
People and horses are out in the blizzard instead of missing the day.
5
Republic
A city street shares one storm, recorded as a public day.
6
Temperance
No want is being fed; the weather is the picture, and then it is over.
7
Truth
It is a record of a day in the snow, not a tale dressed as fact.
6
Stewardship
What remains is the day itself, kept as a street in a storm.

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Film · United Artists · 1964

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A Hard Day's Night

46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake, or put it on for the songs and the work. Nobody is asked to become worse.

The review

They have a television appearance to make, a train to catch, and an afternoon in which the city wants pieces of them. The jokes are at the expense of managers, advertisers, and anyone who needs the boys to stand still and be a product. The songs are the work, performed as work. Nobody is asked to betray a friend. Nobody is asked to be cruel to a girl. For a phenomenon as large as this one, that is a remarkable restraint, and I will credit it.

A family can put it on. The limit is that it is a day, not a life, and a day of fame is a thin diet if it becomes the only picture of adulthood in the house. Watch the studio session and ask who in the room was doing a job seriously. Include them. The screaming outside is the decade. The work inside is the part worth keeping. A very large cultural fact of 1964. The fact is not a reason. The songs and the decency are.

Journal

Keep A Hard Day's Night in the record.