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SUMMARY:Silent Cinema and the Comedy of Birth: An Evening of Shorts (1896
 –1935) - Patrick Ellis\, Department of Film & Media\, University of Cali
 fornia\, Berkeley
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CONTACT:Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
DESCRIPTION:Where did babies come from\, in the silent film era? This sele
 ction of short films provides a humorous answer to the question. From the 
 cabbage patches of France to the baronial mansions of Japan\, the hydrothe
 rapy spas of Italy to the stork factories of the United States\, we witnes
 s the burglaries\, infidelities and deceptions intrinsic to these 'slapsti
 ck pregnancies'.\n\nPatrick Ellis will also present a paper to the Twentie
 th Century Think Tank on 'The "Aeroplane Gaze": Looking Up in 1909' the fo
 llowing day\, Thursday 12 March\, in the Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science\, 1–2pm.
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College\, Cambridge
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