Film · France · 1900
Pass it on
The One-Man Band
19Leave it.
Seven copies of Méliès play at once, and the minute is only that multiplication.
Take controlThis scores 19. The One-Man Band cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
Seven versions of the same man play together. That is the whole minute. Georges Méliès, 1900, copies himself into a band. A child can watch it. The trick is the copies. I parked the kids in front of it while the pasta finished, which is about the right amount of attention.
Music looks like work until you count the workers. There is one. No household shares the tune. No neighbor is actually beside him. The pleasure is multiplication, and a camera can do that without anyone else showing up. Cute, short, and useless as a picture of how playing with other people goes.
Journal
Keep The One-Man Band in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 19. 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
Buddy
31 instead of 19
Buddy is still a comedy film, and it scores 31 instead of 19. What you gain is household: The word friend is the bait.
The eight
- 3Industry
A band seems to work; the fact is one man copied seven times.
- 0Household
One man, seven copies; no marriage, parent, or child appears.
- 1Piety
No conscience is involved; the copies simply play together.
- 1Courage
He risks nothing he would miss; the extra players are copies.
- 2Republic
A band implies neighbors; every player here is the same man.
- 2Temperance
A minute of multiplication teaches the eye to want another copy.
- 4Truth
It shows a band, and the truth is seven copies of one man.
- 2Stewardship
No band is left that another person could join after the minute.
Where to watch
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