Film · Edison · 1903
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The Gay Shoe Clerk
31Leave it.
A minute of shoe fitting, and the close-up of the ankle is the whole sale.
Take controlThis scores 31. The Gay Shoe Clerk cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
One minute, one shoe, one ankle. The title's gay means lively, in the old sense, and Porter has a clerk fit a shoe while the picture moves in on the ankle. A customer objects. A teen can watch it. I wouldn't clear a night for it, and I wouldn't hand it to the younger kids as a harmless shop sketch.
The foot is the product. There's a real job in the frame, and there's an objection, which is the only brake. The pleasure being sold is still the look. We can see it once, name the dare, and be done.
Journal
Keep The Gay Shoe Clerk in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 31. Yours can differ.
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
Saving Bikini Bottom
44 instead of 31
Saving Bikini Bottom is still a comedy film, and it scores 44 instead of 31. What you gain is courage: She crosses the country for her neighbors.
The eight
- 5Industry
A clerk fitting a shoe is a real job, used as the setup for a look.
- 1Household
A customer and a clerk, not a spouse, a parent, or a child.
- 4Piety
A customer objects, which is the only stop the minute allows.
- 2Courage
The dare is a close-up of an ankle, not a loss anyone would feel.
- 2Republic
A shop quarrel, not a duty to a neighbor, a law, or a town.
- 3Temperance
The ankle is what it wants you to want, and the objection comes late.
- 5Truth
It doesn't fake a news event; the close-up is an open dare.
- 3Stewardship
A minute remains, and the lesson in it is how close to look.
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