The Crowd (1928)

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Wikidata Q1304986, film, IMDb tt0018806, TMDB 3061: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits King Vidor as director (Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak).

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Jean-Luc Godard: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (canonical reference): The Crowd → Jean-Luc Godard. Godard reportedly said there was no need to make films about ordinary people because The Crowd already existed.
    “the crowd has already been made.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:43:39 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Sherlock, Jr.: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (acting style contrast): The Crowd → Sherlock, Jr.. Naturalistic acting in The Crowd coexisted in the same era with semaphore-style silent acting, which Keaton avoided.
    “There's an indicating quality where fingers are being waved in the air and that's a stream that coexisted.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:44:00 · James Urbaniak (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

people (1)

  1. people (acting style contrast): The Crowd → Sherlock, Jr.. Naturalistic acting in The Crowd coexisted in the same era with semaphore-style silent acting, which Keaton avoided.
    “There's an indicating quality where fingers are being waved in the air and that's a stream that coexisted.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:44:00 · James Urbaniak (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (canonical reference): The Crowd → Jean-Luc Godard. Godard reportedly said there was no need to make films about ordinary people because The Crowd already existed.
    “the crowd has already been made.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 0:43:39 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

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Who the speakers said made it

As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.