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Gaze into the crystal!

A playful, visually stylized silent film that satirizes the glamour and scandal of 1920s Hollywood through interconnected vignettes of its most iconic stars.

Scandals and pratfalls abound in this satirical and sexy look at the silent movie era, photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music of the roaring twenties, this silent film strings together the lives of the most famous and infamous stars of the 1920s, including Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lupe Vélez, Fatty Arbuckle, and William Desmond Taylor.