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Film · Biograph · 1911

His Trust

Name: His Trust scores 16 — Live Historic
Item: His Trust
Rating: 16
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16Leave it.

Blackface loyalty to a Confederate house is the Lost Cause in a reel.

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The review

A Black servant, played by a white actor in blackface, stays loyal to a Confederate household through the war. Griffith, a reel, the lie in a small frame before the 1915 feature. A house can watch it and should say the makeup. I said it before the loyalty had time to look like a virtue. The loyalty is the Lost Cause. He would inflate this.

I won't score a faithful servant as mercy when the face is paint and the house held people as property. The work on screen is bondage, played as devotion. He is not given a self to owe, or a free neighbor, or a law that would end that house. What remains is a story built to grow. I won't help it.

Journal

Keep His Trust 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

Hearts of the World

26 instead of 16

Hearts of the World is still a war film, and it scores 26 instead of 16. What you gain is courage: War risk is the hook, staged so the audience will take a side.

The eight

2
Industry
The servant's labor is bondage, acted as loyalty in blackface.
3
Household
A Confederate household is what the loyal-slave plot exists to save.
1
Piety
The conscience on offer is loyalty to a slaveholding house.
2
Courage
Staying through the war is staged as courage and is the Lost Cause.
1
Republic
He is made to owe a Confederate house, not a neighbor or a free law.
2
Temperance
The reel asks you to admire the loyalty and to want that lie again.
1
Truth
Blackface and a loyal-slave story are the lie, before the 1915 feature.
1
Stewardship
What he leaves is a small Lost Cause frame he would inflate.

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Film · Britain · 1900

How It Feels to Be Run Over

16Leave it.

Hepworth aims a car at the lens, and nobody is actually run over.

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The review

The title sounds like a crash report. It isn't. Cecil Hepworth, 1900, sends an automobile at the camera, and the picture goes black. A house can watch it. The joke is the address, aimed at the person in the seat. A trick, not an accident. Nobody in our house was hurt, and the reel is not a record of anyone being hurt.

The jolt is the whole event. If a child jumps, you can say the dark is the punchline. I would not use it to talk about the road. There is no wreck to learn from, only a camera lined up as the target.

Journal

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