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Broken Blossoms : Give Us a Smile

Lucy (Lillian Gish) returns home to her alcoholic, belligerent father, ex-boxer Battling Burrows (Donald Crisp).

Give Us a Smile

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acting, close-up, establishing shot, everyday mise-en-scene, fade-in, fade-out, full shot, intertitles, iris, medium shot, music, empathetic, performance, shot/reverse shot, tinting, two-shot, underscore

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"Give Us a Smile" in Broken Blossoms. Directed by D. W. Griffith, D.W. Griffith Productions, 1919, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1428

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