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Quite possibly the first student film, a whimsical romance shot in 1916 by law students from Washington University in St. Louis.
Cast
Gordon Morrison, Dean Marion McDaris, Phil Bryan, Gordon B. Sommers, Dorothy Kremer, D. W. Stewart, G. D. Bartlett
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