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Through every age there is the faithful worshipper at Beauty's shrine.


If you let your mind wander back through History you will find that the only thing that has not changed since the world began is — LOVE. Love is the unchanging axis on which the world revolves.
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For his first feature film, Buster Keaton made an Affectionate Parody of D. W. Griffith's Intolerance, in which a Love Triangle plays out in prehistoric times, during the Roman Empire, and in 1920s America. (The idea was that if the feature-length version flopped, it could be re-edited into three separate shorts.)


Tropes used in Three Ages include: