6/10
It's Not The Camera They're Trying To Fool, It's The Audience
3 April 2020
It's "A New Romance of Celluloid", starting with the MGM newsreel music and collage. It starts with some news events, segues into Eadward Muybridge's horse-racing series, and onto .....

Eventually it turns into a promotional film for DOCTOR JEKYLL FAND MISTER HYDE, LOVE CRAZY, and other MGM features soon to be released when this went into the theaters. You do get some pictures of the cameramen behind the cameras.

It often occurred that MGM would disguise their promotional films as news documentaries, telling you how many feet of rope they used every year and similar facts of earth-shaking importance. Metro was not the only,studio to do this, of course. However, since is from that Studio..
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