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Film · France · 1899

Cinderella

Cinderella

33Leave it.

Méliès paints the kitchen, the ball, and the slipper, and this is not the cartoon.

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The review

Do not put on the 1950 cartoon and think you have seen this. Méliès, 1899, a féerie: the kitchen, the ball, the slipper, done with tricks and painted sets. A child can watch it. It is a reel of the tale, not the book and not the later pictures. The wish is the product.

I knew the shape so well I had to keep reminding myself I was looking at paint and a trick. She is a girl in a kitchen, and the picture is in a hurry to get her to the ball. The work is the doorway, not the point. Pleasant enough for a child if you say whose film it is. I would not let the slipper stand in for a real household. The reel never stays with anyone long enough to show a life.

Journal

Keep Cinderella in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 4Industry
  2. 5Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 3Courage
  5. 2Republic
  6. 3Temperance
  7. 4Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

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 Patchwork Girl of Oz

45 instead of 33

The Patchwork Girl of Oz is still a fantasy film, and it scores 45 instead of 33. What you gain is temperance: A child can watch, and the picture does not school a hunger for more.

The eight

  1. 4
    Industry

    The kitchen is in the reel, and then the wish takes over the picture.

  2. 5
    Household

    Kitchen, ball, and slipper: the old household tale, played as a reel.

  3. 2
    Piety

    Tricks grant the wish, and nobody has to stop wanting it.

  4. 3
    Courage

    She reaches the ball by tricks and paint, not by a risk she would miss.

  5. 2
    Republic

    A ball and a slipper, and no neighbor or law is owed anything.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    The wish is the product, so the reel teaches you to want the wish.

  7. 4
    Truth

    Tricks and painted sets retell the tale; this reel is not the book.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    A child can watch the wish, and the kitchen work is not what remains.

Live historically

Play the 1899 Méliès reel and say out loud it is not the 1950 film and not the book.

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Film · Britain · 1903

A Daring Daylight Burglary

A Daring Daylight Burglary

33Leave it.

The roof is the thrill, the capture is the only part I trust.

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The review

Frank Mottershaw shot this in Sheffield, and it played in America too. A thief on a roof, a chase, a capture. A teen can watch it. I won't hand it a rank it cannot prove. It was one of the pictures around when Porter made the train film. That is context, not a medal.

The roof is the thrill they sold. The capture is the part I can live with. We can watch the run without pretending a burglary is clever work. When it ends, the sentence in this kitchen is short: he is caught, and the height was the bait.

Journal

Keep A Daring Daylight Burglary in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 3Industry
  2. 1Household
  3. 3Piety
  4. 3Courage
  5. 5Republic
  6. 2Temperance
  7. 5Truth
  8. 4Stewardship

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 French Connection

45 instead of 33

The French Connection is still a crime film, and it scores 45 instead of 33. What you gain is industry: Two detectives work a heroin case, and the case is the actual job.

The eight

  1. 3
    Industry

    Burglary is the activity, and it ends when he is captured.

  2. 1
    Household

    A roof, a chase, and a capture; no household is a life here.

  3. 3
    Piety

    Capture ends it; we are not shown a conscience that stops him.

  4. 3
    Courage

    The daring in the title is a roof, and the roof is a thrill.

  5. 5
    Republic

    A Sheffield chase ends in a capture, and America ran it too.

  6. 2
    Temperance

    The roof is the thrill, which is the want the reel keeps feeding.

  7. 5
    Truth

    It was in the air with the train film, and that is not a crown.

  8. 4
    Stewardship

    The street gets a capture; the height was what they sold.

Live historically

From your sidewalk, look at your own roof and name what a daylight thief would carry off.

Where to watch

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The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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