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You can tell this feature documentary was created by a team of movie lovers Douglas Trumbull (2001: a space odyssey), Leonard Maltin (essential book author and film historian), Quentin Tarantino (game changing write, director), Rob Murphy star and director of this film. I especially like all the information about CINERAMA and that amazing process using a three-eyed camera to capture a 55 by 146 degree view (the same as the back of the human eyeball) and utilizing seven separate channel magnetic full coat, full range stereo sound both in 1952 before CinemaScope, VistaVision, NaturalVision 3-D, and decades before IMAX.

We get to go into the projection booths with people who, it seems, lived in them for most of their careers because they loved their jobs, films and wanted it done right. The were there when things went wrong and they fixed it... they were not busy elsewhere popping corn!

Highly Recommended.

In the middle of watching this new smoking hot drama I realized I had seen similar characters in another love match. Trying to avoid spoilers I will first describe the 1926 love triangle starring John Gilbert, Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson; "Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves." John Gilbert (the Tom Cruise of his day) was just coming off blockbuster THE BIG PARADE, a war film that played in some theaters for over a year!

Greta Garbo had made an international splash back in Sweden in THE SAGA OF GOSTA BERLING with her Swedish co-star Lars Hanson. But it was THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL, that film made her the top actress in the world and for many years after that.

It was said during the close-up and romantic filming of the "lighting of the cigarette scene," set in a dark garden at night that it was so obviously erotic and the stars so turned on that the director quietly cleared the set so the two stars who were visibly falling in love with each other were to be left completely alone so they could finish the scene off camera!

And at the ending of the silent film the two males are locked in mortal combat trying to kill each other and win exclusive right to the woman they both love until - Garbo trying to reach them on their sacred island falls through the ice! And as she dies, the two challengers stop fighting for some reason and realize their reason for fight is gone. THE END.

We just saw this hilarious short on THE SILENT COMEDY WATCH PARTY (3/17/2024 on YouTube.)

It was part of the 100th show/4 year anniversary of Ben Model (live piano accompanist) and film historian Steve Massa's silent short film comedy watch party which started the week the Covid pandemic shut down public gathering. The idea was to use humor as medicine, and it has worked.

This short film was preserved by the EYE Institute in Amsterdam and the Dutch intertitles were translated back to English for this world re-premiere.

The film plot is described in the summaries and I just want to add the comedy builds to a hilarious and disastrous conclusion!

The message is husbands appreciate your wives and wives don't leave your husbands alone to do the house work unless you have lots of insurance!