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''What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City'' is a 1901 American short film.
In 2001, Rosemary Hanes and Brian Taves compared the sequence to the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe in a white dress in the 1955 film ''
Richard Abel. ''Silent film'' (1996) , Tom Gunning '"Now You See It, Now You Don't": The Temporality of the Cinema of Attractions
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Retrieved 5 January 2011. Rosemary Hanes with Brian Taves.
Moving Image Section--Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
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Retrieved 5 January 2011.
Plot
The 77 second film depicts a woman, escorted by a man, walking over a grate. The hot air lifts her skirt, she laughs and they walk on.Comparisons
In 2001, Rosemary Hanes and Brian Taves compared the sequence to the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe in a white dress in the 1955 film ''The Seven Year Itch
''The Seven Year Itch'' is a 1955 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay he co-wrote with George Axelrod from the 1952 three-act play. The film stars Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, who reprised his stage role. ...
'', writing "With ''The Seven Year Itch'' (1955), the image of Marilyn Monroe's thighs exposed under her billowing skirt entered American popular culture. The Library's motion picture and broadcasting collections provide the opportunity to document not only how women's roles and their depictions have changed throughout the past hundred years, but also how much has remained the same."
Tom Gunning makes another observation, contrasting the two events as narrative devices writing "The act of display n ''What Happened...''is both climax and resolution here and does not lead to a series of incidents or the creation of characters with discernible traits. While the similar lifting of Marilyn Monroe's skirt in ''The Seven Year Itch'' also provides a moment of spectacle, it simultaneously creates character traits that explain later narrative actions."
See also
*Promotional film poster of ''The Woman in Red'' (1984 film)References
p.78
Retrieved 5 January 2011. Rosemary Hanes with Brian Taves.
Moving Image Section--Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is ...
. Retrieved 5 January 2011. From a chapter in ''American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States'', Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is ...
, 2001.
Lee Grieveson, Peter Krämer. ''The silent cinema reader'' (2004) , , Tom Gunning "The Cinema of Attractionsp.46
Retrieved 5 January 2011.
External links
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