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School Begins (1928)

School Begins poster
Directed by
Robert A. McGowan
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
20 min
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This short silent comedy follows a group of mischievous children as they go back to school. The kids get into various antics in the classroom and on the playground.

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What happens

School Begins is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film, the 79th in the series, directed by Anthony Mack. It had been considered lost, as it was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. However, a copy is preserved in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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