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If you have ten minutes and want to see what people in 1929 thought was **high energy** entertainment, this is for you. It's weirdly hypnotic but also kind of exhausting for such a short film. Historians will love it, but if you can't stand static cameras and screechy audio, you'll probably hate every second. It’s a V...

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Murray Roth

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"If you have ten minutes and want to see what people in 1929 thought was **high energy** entertainment, this is for you. It's weirdly hypnotic but also kind of exhausting for such a short film. Historians will love it, but if you can't stand static cameras and screechy audio, you'll probably hate every second. It’s a Vitaphone short, which means it’s basically just a stage act caught on camera before anyone knew how to actually move a lens. Bob Albright has this grin that never leaves his face...."


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