A House Divided (I) (1913)
5/10
"Stop! You're breaking your agreement."
4 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Even a thirteen minute film short from 1913 can be fascinating if you pay attention. When a young couple suspects each other of cheating, they're advised by their lawyer to 'live separately together' and communicate via writing notes to each other. When the agreement is presented to them for their consent, the contract that's shown on screen already has their signatures on it, even though the man and wife are both shown signing it afterwards. And say, I know it was a simpler time, over a hundred years ago now, but was there ever a time an attorney would represent both parties in a separation or divorce agreement?

Well everything worked out in the end as one would have expected. The couple patches up their misunderstanding and things are set right, leaving me with just one question. What was the wife going to do with seven pounds of sugar and eight cans of lobster?
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