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The Freshman (1925, Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)

May 23rd, 2006 No Comments

The Freshman has one of the most peculiar approaches to storytelling I’ve seen. It has very little establishing exposition–a few lines on a title card about maybe four of those exposition title cards throughout–and its scenes are gag-centered and the film is these gags strung together. Maybe the approach isn’t so peculiar (arguably, it’s the […]

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