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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "male bonding" (3)

College Chums

Edwin S. Porter (director)
Edison (production)

Language: Silent, released in Dec 1907
Minutes: 11

Another Porter snoozer, posing as "comedy". Entirely filmed in one room, and it looks as if the camera was set up and then the photographer went off for a nap. The sole noteworthy feature here is the inventive animation of a phone call.

Featured elements:

: comedy; extended incident; gender-bender; identity mix-up; male bonding

Algie The Miner

Alice Guy-Blaché (director/producer)
Harry Schenck (director)
Edward Warren (director)
Billy Quirk (lead)
Solax (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Feb 1912
Minutes: 10

After the broad comedy of "Go West, young sissy", this switches midway into a tale of male bonding (or something like that). In less than a week Algie returns East to claim his bride (who loved him as an effeminate man, so probably will be disgusted with him as a Rough Rider), bringing along his newly bonded male (or something like that) who presumably will play an unspecified role in Algie`s marriage. Seems there is no consensus on who actually directed this - an ambiguity befitting this quirky work.

Featured elements:

: addiction; baptism of fire; comedy; gender-bender; male bonding; modernism; prejudice; sexuality; Western; zero to hero

Quo Vadis? [1913]

Enrico Guazzoni (director/writer)
Eugenio Bava (cinematographer)
Alessandro Bona (cinematographer)
Henryk Sienkiewicz (author)
Gustavo Serena (lead)
Società Italiana Cines (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, Russian subtitles, released in Mar 1913
Minutes: 103

Maybe Rome wasn't built in a day, but it only took one night to burn it down (with the help of a few good men with torches), according to this tale of palace intrigue, divine intervention, and jungle fever in Nero's Rome.

Featured elements:

: corruption; death scene; falsely accused; forbidden love; heroic defender; historical drama; male bonding; manipulator; melodrama; persecution; prison; redemption; religion; rescue; revenge; Roman empire; romance; servitude; suicide; treachery; unrequited love

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