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The Original Movie

The Original Movie

1922 · 8 min · ★ 6.3 · Animation

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.

Directed by Tony Sarg · Written by Herbert M. Dawley

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