[78-L] Cylinder machine sighting

[Philip Carli]

The singer and the record, and she tried to smash the son too.  The Edison stayed serenely in the background...

Actually, it's quite a good film, about the singer regaining notoriety because of a car wreck at her ramshackle farm...she exploits it with the media to the hilt.
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Michael Biel [mbiel at mbiel.com]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 3:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Cylinder machine sighting

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:
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> 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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