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Film · Biograph · 1905

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Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

25Leave it.

It's the nursery rhyme at a fair, and the stolen pig is the whole story.

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The review

Bitzer puts the nursery rhyme on a fairground. A stolen pig, then a chase. Biograph, 1905. A child can watch it. This is not the later experimental film that reuses the footage, and I would say that before anybody goes hunting for the art version.

The fair is the pleasure. The theft is the story. I don't mind a child seeing a rhyme acted out, and I also don't pretend the pig was borrowed. The picture enjoys the taking, and the chase is the rest. Short enough that nobody here loses an evening. Not a model, either. Just a fair and a theft with a tune you already know.

Journal

Keep Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 25. 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.

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Hollywood Dirt

36 instead of 25

Hollywood Dirt is still a comedy film, and it scores 36 instead of 25. What you gain is household: A divorce behind him, a woman who wants a different life.

The eight

3
Industry
A fairground is the pleasure, not a job anyone is asked to do well.
2
Household
A child can watch the stolen pig; no parent is a life at the fair.
2
Piety
The theft of the pig is the story, and conscience never stops it.
2
Courage
A chase after a stolen pig is not a risk anyone would miss.
3
Republic
The pig is stolen at the fair, and the chase is all the law you get.
3
Temperance
The fair is the pleasure, and the stolen pig is the treat of the rhyme.
2
Truth
A nursery theft is acted out, and the taking never gets a bill.
3
Stewardship
A child can watch it; what remains is a fair and a stolen pig.

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Film · Not named in the listing · 2026

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Backrooms

25Leave it.

It sells that yellow-office dread as a product and you leave with nothing solid.

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The review

Backrooms takes the internet's ready-made picture of endless yellow offices and makes it the movie. Fluorescent, windowless, work space with purpose and exits stripped out. What it gets right is the monotony; the dread holds steady before anything else is asked.

Corridors that never end make the thrill of getting lost the whole product. A tired family finishes with no solid room left to keep.

Journal

Keep Backrooms in the record.