The first thing that strikes you is the smell—no, not onscreen, but in your own memory: salt, taffy, rust. Neptune's Step-Daughter projects that aroma like a ghost limb; a 1914 one-reeler that somehow lasts the length of a childhood. Frank P. Donovan’s intertitles read as if they were soaked overnight in low tide: “T...
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" The first thing that strikes you is the smell—no, not onscreen, but in your own memory: salt, taffy, rust. Neptune's Step-Daughter projects that aroma like a ghost limb; a 1914 one-reeler that somehow lasts the length of a childhood. Frank P. Donovan’s intertitles read as if they were soaked overnight in low tide: “The sea claims what the law will not.” The line floats up twenty seconds in, white on black, and already you know this isn’t going to be The Small Town Guy’s pastoral chuckles or th..."
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