{"id":1989,"date":"2013-04-28T22:49:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T02:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2014-12-04T02:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T07:41:50","slug":"advice-column-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/advice-column-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice Column #7 (4\/29\/13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1992\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" alt=\"edi\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/edi.jpg\" width=\"692\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/edi.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/edi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the oldest great movie? Like legitimately great, not just great &#8216;for its time&#8217; or something. &#8211; Mia R.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note (12\/4\/14): We no longer answer movie questions through our advice column. We answer them in the mailbag segment of our <a href=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/category\/podcast-episodes\/\">podcast<\/a>. Send them to <a href=\"mailto:Cody@SmugFilm.com\">Cody@SmugFilm.com<\/a> and we will answer on the show!<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>John D&#8217;Amico:\u00a0<\/strong>Well you could track back and back to the dawn of film for this one. There are moments of grace and creativity in most surviving early films, but I think for modern eyes, one of the first really powerful, emotionally affecting films is the 1912 Edison studios short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Hr0u6KKL_c\" target=\"_blank\">The Land Beyond the Sunset<\/a>\u00a0directed by Harold M. Shaw. It&#8217;s about an orphan boy\/dreamer, kind of along the lines of that short story The Little Match Girl. I don&#8217;t want to give it away too much, because at 12 minutes with a whopper of an ending, you may as well just watch it on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Land Beyond The Sunset (1912 Edison Silent Film Masterpiece)\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Hr0u6KKL_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some lovely framing and a great use of practical locations give it a really slice-of-life feel, catching the very last embers of that horrible Dickensian industrial world. Among other successes, the constant motif of little Joe looking directly at the camera makes him a uniquely memorable and affecting protagonist of the era. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1992\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" alt=\"edi\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/edi.jpg\" width=\"692\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/edi.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/edi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s the oldest great movie? Like legitimately great, not just great &#8216;for its time&#8217; or something. &#8211; Mia R.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note (12\/4\/14): We no longer answer movie questions through our advice column. We answer them in the mailbag segment of our <a href=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/category\/podcast-episodes\/\">podcast<\/a>. Send them to <a href=\"mailto:Cody@SmugFilm.com\">Cody@SmugFilm.com<\/a> and we will answer on the show!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631,25],"tags":[635,1409,1408,498,1410,95,1405,1407,499,632,1406],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-allposts","tag-advice-column","tag-dickensian","tag-edison-studios","tag-free-movie-advice","tag-harold-m-shaw","tag-john-damico","tag-land-beyond-the-sunset","tag-little-match-girl","tag-movie-advice","tag-movie-advice-column","tag-the-land-beyond-the-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5767,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}