
Cinema, in its infancy, was often a mirror to the frantic vibrations of a world suddenly equipped with internal combustion engines and the promise of boundless velocity.In the pantheon of silent comedy, Lloyd Hamilton occupies a space of peculiar, elongated grace. While Chaplin had his pathos and Keaton his stoic geome...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Lloyd Bacon

Eduardo Notari
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"Cinema, in its infancy, was often a mirror to the frantic vibrations of a world suddenly equipped with internal combustion engines and the promise of boundless velocity.In the pantheon of silent comedy, Lloyd Hamilton occupies a space of peculiar, elongated grace. While Chaplin had his pathos and Keaton his stoic geometry, Hamilton possessed a sort of gangly, suburban bewilderment that felt intimately relatable to the post-war American male. In The Speeder (1922), directed with a keen eye for ki..."

Ruth Hiatt
Archie Mayo
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