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Why Theory

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The First Color Film - Birth of a Nation

This is, to my mind, the first romantic comedyit. And it's interesting that the woman, a aleandrews, clode colbert, is in the upper class position and the man is in the lower working class position. This film also, i think, really important for our purposes. It came out a few months before the hays production code went into effect,. That scene wasas one of them, like, that was too too racy. What clauda colbert did, ye a, was too much. To quote helen lovejoy, so the um, the redone, by the way, in mystic piza os, that right?

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