I own "The Cabinet" as well. V. freaky film. And it had me completely fooled the first time I saw it! I'm not entirely sure if I've seen "Birth of a Nation" in its entirety or just clips of it. Silent films can be great. Valentino, Chaplin, Keaton, Garbo....

Just like I figured Flute might be familiar with making bassoon reeds, I thought that you would be most likely to know about The Mills Brothers. In fact, I had to eliminate quite a lot of my CD's based on us being contemporaries :-)