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“Sweet ie threaded new film into her Moviola “Give me a brush, I’d shine his shoes Now Want to see the only existing intact copy of Broken Blosso outtakes on The Circus? The censored reel froer? Hell, there’s lots more I—”

Maggie Botwin stopped, drunk on her cinema past and my full attention

“Yeah, I think you can be trusted” And she stopped “Here I a on You didn’t cos How come you’re the only writer ever came up those stairs?”

Arbuthnot, Clarence, Roy, and the Beast, I thought, but could not say

“Cat got your tongue? I’ll wait Where was I? Oh!”

Maggie Botwin slid back a huge cupboard door There were at least forty cans of film stashed in five shelves, with titles painted on the rims

She shoved one tin into , which read: Crazy Youths

“No, look at the sgie

“Intolerance!”

“My own, uncut version,” Maggie Botwin said, laughing “I helped Griffith So This is the only complete version of Intolerance extant! And here!”

Chortling like a girl at a birthday party, Maggie yanked down and laid out: Orphans of the Storht

“I assisted on these filhts I printed the outtakes just for me! Ready? Here!”

She thrust a tin marked Greed into my hands

“Even Von Stroheim doesn’t own this twenty-hour version!”

“Why didn’t other editors think to do this?”