[78-L] Cylinder machine sighting

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Fri Jan 21 12:18:11 PST 2011


On 1/21/2011 12:43 PM, Philip Carli wrote:
> Cylinder machines seem to have ominous or highly dramatic roles in films, to wit some early examples:
>
> 2) In _The Goose Woman_ (1925) Louise Dresser, once a famous opera singer, is now a hopeless drunken slattern whose only pleasure is hearing her old records on an Edison Home; one of them is smashed in a confrontation with her son.

Which one was smashed?  The singer, the son, or the Edison Home?

Mike (couldn't resist the straight line) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


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