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Ruby Keeler & Lee Dixon dance on a giant typewriter in Ready, Willing & Able (1937)
So jaded by cgi that I didn’t think this was impressive at all until I realised it was all an actual size set
It took me a solid few seconds to realize those type bars swinging back and forth at the top are actually peoples legs
Your female ancestors that nearly died from famine or child birth that were financially shackled to men they hated and had to wash clothes in a river and milk cows while pregnant watching you listen to the red scare podcast and post pro ana shit and talk about giving up your rights so you can bake banana bread and wanting to have 12 babies and live on a farm and be an illiterate barefoot housewife living on a farm