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Emma Lindsay Squier, Motion Picture, New York, April 1919
„We‘ll have to do that over again, Mr. Chaplin“
Editorial content. „The Sad Business of Being Funny
By Emma Lindsay Squier
Along country road, filled with California dust and
scorched by a California sun; a little man, toes
turned out, bamboo cane swinging, walking with jerky gait
of a mechanical toy soldier, ambles down the stretch,
while a camera grinds. A pig, set loose from a pen and shooed
by energetic directors and assistants, takes a short cut
to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and dashes between
the legs of the innocent pedestrian. There is a general
mix-up of pork, hat, cane and turned-up-at-the-toes shoes,
a series of startled squeals from the animal, a cloud
of dust rising thickly and chokingly, and a camera-man calls,
,We‘ll have to do that over again, Mr. Chaplin;
the film buckled.‘“ (...)
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