From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   	Let me give you a feature spectacle for the end of the week,   
   Harold Lloyd's amusing two-reeler Number, Please?, from 1920, in   
   which Harold's character attempts to get permission to take Mildred   
   Davis's character in a hot air balloon ride.  It comes in three parts:   
      
   	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCI8BN4jJQw   
   	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY0iZIeQVUw   
   	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06foAeg_j1M   
      
   	As a bonus it shows a lot of the things people did for fun in   
   Venice Beach, California, around 1920.  For being in black and white   
   it sure looks like people were having a great time back then.  The   
   frustration of searching for a phone -- and, more, a usable phone --   
   is simply delightful.   
      
   --   
   								Joseph Nebus   
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