The History of the Motion Picture: feat. “As Clouds Roll By”

Duration: 800 ft.

Year Published: 1930

Complete Record: 1930’s silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks (this film adds voice-over narration and musical accomp.) slapstick comedy about superstition, 30s telephone operator, DF meets equally superstitious girl, dancing food inside stomach, dream sequence--ominous strong man, walking through wall, room full of girls, DF in pajamas, slow-motion flipping & jumping, falling down chimney, Ouija board, climbing wall of apartment building, handshakes, wedding, devil(inside brain), DF about to commit suicide, gun pointed at head, psychiatrist carted off to insane asylum, classic running & jumping on top of train cars, rainstorm, flood, miniature town washed away, cat & chickens float on board, swimming into house underwater, wedding on rooftop