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== Film ==
== Film ==
* A trope from Hollywood musicals of the forties and fifties was the [[Dream Ballet|ballet sequence]]—a segment in which the movie broke away from the main action to tell a mini-story through stylized interpretive dance. It may have [[Evolving Trope|evolved]] into the [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]].
* A trope from Hollywood musicals of the forties and fifties was the [[Dream Ballet|ballet sequence]]—a segment in which the movie broke away from the main action to tell a mini-story through stylized interpretive dance. It may have [[Evolving Trope|evolved]] into the [[Non Sequitur Scene]].
** As a glance at many of the specific examples below will show, this is largely thanks to [[Gene Kelly]].
** As a glance at many of the specific examples below will show, this is largely thanks to [[Gene Kelly]].
** First played with in the "Dream Ballet" from ''[[Oklahoma!]]''.
** First played with in the "Dream Ballet" from ''[[Oklahoma!]]''.
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* The use of blood typing to exclude suspects in a mystery story now only appears in rare period pieces, as evidence in resurrected old cases, and as preliminary evidence in the ''very'' few stories that have DNA tests realistically take time to get back.
* The use of blood typing to exclude suspects in a mystery story now only appears in rare period pieces, as evidence in resurrected old cases, and as preliminary evidence in the ''very'' few stories that have DNA tests realistically take time to get back.
** Inversely, as widespread DNA testing gets older it's increasingly unlikely that someone would not only be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing ''and'' the relevant parties (at least the falsely convicted and the real criminal) still be alive, let alone have any trail left.
** Inversely, as widespread DNA testing gets older it's increasingly unlikely that someone would not only be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing ''and'' the relevant parties (at least the falsely convicted and the real criminal) still be alive, let alone have any trail left.
* The use of smelling salts to revive a [[Fainting|woman who's fainted]] -- more precisely, the virtual omnipresence of smelling salts in every home. Judging by any number of classic movies from the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]], you were more likely to find smelling salts in a random medicine cabinet than you were to find aspirin. As [[Fainting]] itself became a [[Dead Horse Trope]] if not a Forgotten Trope itself, its quick and easy countermeasure vanished from the trope pool as well.
* The use of smelling salts to revive a [[Fainting|woman who's fainted]]—more precisely, the virtual omnipresence of smelling salts in every home. Judging by any number of classic movies from the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]], you were more likely to find smelling salts in a random medicine cabinet than you were to find aspirin. As [[Fainting]] itself became a [[Dead Horse Trope]] if not a Forgotten Trope itself, its quick and easy countermeasure vanished from the trope pool as well.
* With identity theft becoming common and public knowledge of government invasion of privacy, the presence of shredded documents in personal trash indicating someone is a spy or otherwise up to no good has vanished and people have forgotten it ever was suspicious.
* With identity theft becoming common and public knowledge of government invasion of privacy, the presence of shredded documents in personal trash indicating someone is a spy or otherwise up to no good has vanished and people have forgotten it ever was suspicious.


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[[Category:The Silent Age of Animation]]
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