WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.555 align:middle line:84% I will play one happy one, and I won't read the note 00:00:03.555 --> 00:00:05.180 align:middle line:84% for that, because it's also a long one, 00:00:05.180 --> 00:00:07.430 align:middle line:84% but then I'll play the translation for you. 00:00:07.430 --> 00:00:11.785 align:middle line:84% This is one of my favorite ones if I can find it. 00:00:11.785 --> 00:00:12.285 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:12.285 --> 00:00:20.250 align:middle line:90% 00:00:20.250 --> 00:00:21.300 align:middle line:90% Heroic. 00:00:21.300 --> 00:00:23.490 align:middle line:84% Helen Holmes, "The Hazards of Helen." 00:00:23.490 --> 00:00:25.080 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:00:25.080 --> 00:00:26.100 align:middle line:90% "Victim? 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:28.080 align:middle line:90% Tie me up to trestle or bridge. 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:32.490 align:middle line:84% I bristle, buck, saw through blunt bindings swing and shimmy 00:00:32.490 --> 00:00:35.310 align:middle line:84% to ease myself down burnished poles. 00:00:35.310 --> 00:00:37.830 align:middle line:90% Bold, cold, heroic. 00:00:37.830 --> 00:00:40.200 align:middle line:84% Lock me inside your clerk's closet, 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:44.040 align:middle line:84% I'll pick its double luck, duck the hucksters ill-timed shot, 00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:46.320 align:middle line:90% tackle robbers in the box car. 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:51.540 align:middle line:84% Intrepid, I ride astride slender waist-rails uncouple cars, 00:00:51.540 --> 00:00:53.580 align:middle line:90% and mount runaways. 00:00:53.580 --> 00:00:56.790 align:middle line:84% I turn all tails to heads, begin each film fired, 00:00:56.790 --> 00:01:01.590 align:middle line:84% despised til I solve all crises I alone saw coming. 00:01:01.590 --> 00:01:03.180 align:middle line:90% I get my men. 00:01:03.180 --> 00:01:09.060 align:middle line:84% My fans are manifests now of different destinies. 00:01:09.060 --> 00:01:12.720 align:middle line:84% The West is a dead end for those with frailty inbuilt 00:01:12.720 --> 00:01:14.100 align:middle line:90% to their machinery. 00:01:14.100 --> 00:01:18.060 align:middle line:84% Men here hit the skids, lost it all and stocks, cows, 00:01:18.060 --> 00:01:22.080 align:middle line:84% card, slots, topped out and constrained by history. 00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:25.170 align:middle line:84% But I'm still speculative, exciting, 00:01:25.170 --> 00:01:27.570 align:middle line:84% my amplitude the endless futurity 00:01:27.570 --> 00:01:30.630 align:middle line:84% to which my sex has always been traveling. 00:01:30.630 --> 00:01:33.720 align:middle line:84% That's why strangers eat me up in the dark, 00:01:33.720 --> 00:01:37.500 align:middle line:84% laugh when I grab the robber's mitt, the one snatching 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:40.530 align:middle line:84% at your heartstrings, my leather valise. 00:01:40.530 --> 00:01:42.840 align:middle line:84% Now I bring my mouth down to his wrist 00:01:42.840 --> 00:01:47.250 align:middle line:84% to take a bite that only looks like a kiss." 00:01:47.250 --> 00:01:50.304 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:50.304 --> 00:01:51.510 align:middle line:90% 00:01:51.510 --> 00:01:53.100 align:middle line:90% I should just say one thing. 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:55.170 align:middle line:84% The note, I go into it in more detail, 00:01:55.170 --> 00:01:57.630 align:middle line:84% but Helen Holmes did all her own stunts, 00:01:57.630 --> 00:01:59.040 align:middle line:90% which I think is quite-- 00:01:59.040 --> 00:01:59.670 align:middle line:90% quite amazing. 00:01:59.670 --> 00:02:03.810 align:middle line:84% And the other thing too to take note of, the myth of the woman, 00:02:03.810 --> 00:02:06.180 align:middle line:84% the image of the woman tied to the train tracks 00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:08.280 align:middle line:84% was actually-- it's sort of a cultural myth. 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:10.800 align:middle line:84% There were only like two such images and Helen Holmes 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.500 align:middle line:84% paid sort of ironic homage to them 00:02:13.500 --> 00:02:16.320 align:middle line:84% by tying up her boyfriend Tom and leaving 00:02:16.320 --> 00:02:18.300 align:middle line:84% him roped on the tracks in one of her films. 00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:19.860 align:middle line:90% So yeah. 00:02:19.860 --> 00:02:23.370 align:middle line:84% So we have this idea of the helpless woman, but in fact, 00:02:23.370 --> 00:02:24.000 align:middle line:90% that's-- 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:25.670 align:middle line:90% that's a fabrication.