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The Seven Ages (1905)

The Seven Ages poster
Directed by
Edwin Stanton Porter
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
5 min
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent comedy that shows different stages of a person's life from infancy to old age. It follows a series of vignettes inspired by a Shakespeare speech.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulnostalgictheatricalobservationalcharming

What happens

The Seven Ages is a 1905 American silent comedy film, directed by Edwin S. Porter inspired by the monologue All the World's a Stage in William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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