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Modern Business

1930 · 8 min

A brief, bouncy musical short that breezes past like a cheerful sales pitch set to rhythm.

Directed by: Roy Mack
Starring: Bernard Granville, Paul Howard, The Lewis Sisters

Overview: An up-to-date salesman shows a department store how to improve its business, to the strains of syncopation.

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Directed by: Roy Mack
Starring: Bernard Granville, Paul Howard, The Lewis Sisters

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Tone
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: work
music
Places: workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: musical
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	0
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	5
Romance	0
Tension	0
Darkness	0
Complexity	1
Emotional weight	0

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Directed by: Roy Mack
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Runtime: 8 min

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