Black and white films I saw at Cornell Cinema to connect us elites-to-be to our heritage

• Buster Keaton in The General with live piano accompaniment, all the full live practical effects and stunts were amazing, gave me a firmer sense of why I should respect Jackie Chan

• turn-of-the century French porn films, it was interesting cause they’d yet to think “maybe use attractive people”, reminds me of Indian porn, still at the level of being amazed by bobs and vagene. Also there was a scene by a pool where one of the guys walked off screen and came back with a dog on a chain and the whole theatre audibly sucked air through its teeth