Snub invades a harem in Turkey, where they teach the harem ladies how to dance the shimmy, with sad results..

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A shimmering fever dream etched in nitrate, Trotting Through Turkey lands like a custard pie hurled inside Topkapı Palace—simultaneously sacrilege and sacrament for silent-comedy zealots. Few one-reel baubles dare to juxtapose the sacred hush of Ottoman court life with the syncopated shimmy of a Jazz-Age speakeasy. ...

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" A shimmering fever dream etched in nitrate, Trotting Through Turkey lands like a custard pie hurled inside Topkapı Palace—simultaneously sacrilege and sacrament for silent-comedy zealots. Few one-reel baubles dare to juxtapose the sacred hush of Ottoman court life with the syncopated shimmy of a Jazz-Age speakeasy. Snub Pollard, that antipodean imp with the facial foliage of a struck match, barrels through Istanbul’s mythic veil as though it were tissue paper. The camera, jittery and caffeina..."


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