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Our Modern Maidens : The Prom and the Morning After

Billie Brown (Joan Crawford) gets engaged to Gil Jordan (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), who is trying to become a diplomat. When Brown sees senior diplomat Glenn Abbott (Rod la Rocque) on the train, she goes to talk to him about Gil.

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close-up, costume, diegetic sound, explanatory insert, fade-in, fade-out, full shot, intertitles, long shot, match on action, medium shot, music, diegetic, music, empathetic, pan, reaction shot, rear projection, shot/reverse shot, source lighting, source music, tracking shot, two-shot

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"The Prom and the Morning After" in Our Modern Maidens. Directed by Jack Conway, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1929, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1469

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