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A title card in this film dissolves from a drawing of a train station to a nearly identical shot of the train leaving, then transitions to a doubly exposed shot of two trains in motion. In a scene from this film, a man repeatedly fixes straps on a woman’s dress that keep falling, until he becomes so annoyed that he instead pulls one of the straps down, prompting her to slap him. A nighttime traveling shot in this film follows a man climbing over a fence, then moves through trees to a woman near a lake touching up her (*) makeup, before the man comes into frame and they embrace. In this film, a young couple at a carnival perform a celebratory (10[1])dance after the husband stops a pig from running riot in the hall; the wife in that couple was an early role for Janet Gaynor. For 10 points, rural and urban life are contrasted in a man’s relationships with his wife and his mistress in what F.W. Murnau romance? ■END■

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