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The Original Movie
Release Date:April 8, 1922
Running Time:8 min
Genres:Animation
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Synopsis
A prehistoric writer sells his masterpiece to a film company, which is butchered horribly in the process of getting made into a stone-age movie. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
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