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Shoes

Live musical accompaniment by Dan Newton

This early film establishes the environment and narrative of the working-girl genre. A poor shop girl desperately needs new shoes. Will she accept the shady advances of a persistent man who promises to pay for them? On loan from Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, this rare print of the U.S. film has Dutch intertitles. 1916, U.S., BW, 35mm, silent, with live English translation by Noemia Backer and Jenneke Oosterhoff, 5 minutes.