The Price of a Gift (1914)

Directed by

Warwick Buckland

Genre

silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A man whose wife is an alcoholic steals from his office to feed his hungry child. The film shows the hard choices he makes.

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What happens

The Price of a Gift è un cortometraggio muto del 1914 diretto da Warwick Buckland. Il marito di un'ubriacona ruba nel suo ufficio per poter nutrire il suo bambino che ha fame. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.