The first time I watched Screen Follies No. 1 I swore the filmstrip was sweating. Not metaphorically—actual beads of silver halide condensation trickling down the emulsion like the celluloid itself had a fever. That’s the kind of picture this is: a 12-minute short that behaves like a delirium tremens, stitched togethe...
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" The first time I watched Screen Follies No. 1 I swore the filmstrip was sweating. Not metaphorically—actual beads of silver halide condensation trickling down the emulsion like the celluloid itself had a fever. That’s the kind of picture this is: a 12-minute short that behaves like a delirium tremens, stitched together by two anarchists named F.A. Dahne and Luis Seel who seem to have raided every prop-room between Berlin and Hoboken before torching the inventory for comic kindling. There is no..."
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