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Film · Edison · 1901

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What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City

16Leave it.

The skirt lifts on Twenty-Third Street because they staged it, not by chance.

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The review

Twenty-Third Street is a real place. This accident is not. A woman walks over a sidewalk grate and the air lifts her skirt, and Porter and Fleming staged it to look like a street fact. A teen can watch it. The pleasure is the look.

I can see why a 1901 crowd stopped. I don't want the little ones learning that a stranger's clothes are the joke. If we show it, the word arranged comes before the picture. A city name on the title is not a witness.

Journal

Keep What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 16. 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

The Kissing Booth 3

28 instead of 16

The Kissing Booth 3 is still a comedy film, and it scores 28 instead of 16. What you gain is household: A friendship and a father are in the frame.

The eight

3
Industry
Porter and Fleming's work was staging a street to look unplanned.
1
Household
No marriage or child is part of what this street reel gives us.
1
Piety
No conscience interrupts the lift; the look is why the reel exists.
1
Courage
Nobody risks a livelihood; the skirt is the whole stake.
2
Republic
A public sidewalk is used, and the woman on it is the bait.
2
Temperance
You are walked up to the lift and trained to wait for it.
1
Truth
Staged to look like a street fact, so the accident is a lie.
2
Stewardship
Left on the street is a fake accident and a habit of staring.

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Film · 20th Century · 1975

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

16Leave it.

Funny if you already live in the costume. Not for kids, and not a little church.

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The review

People dressed for it. A newly engaged couple breaks down and enters a castle where a scientist from another planet is building a man. The songs became a midnight ritual. The joke is innocence walking into appetite and staying. If you are already inside that joke, it is funny. It is adult, and it is not for children.

They arrived engaged. The night does not hand that back. Staying is the punchline. I would not play this where a kid can hear the songs and decide the castle is the more interesting life. A ritual you dress up for is still a ritual, and this one is organized around wanting, not around getting anybody home.