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Doctors cut up a patient and put him back together. Over it all hangs a sign: Please don't scream! Cold humour as a critique of hospital conditions.
This isn't an isolated example among Alice Guy's films. The Usefulness of X-Rays (1898) and At the Hypnotist's (1898) fall into the same category. The films are framed in vaudeville humour; only the subject is original as corresponds to her innovative style.
(Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
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Photo © MF dokumentárních filmů Ji.hlava 2013
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