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Dionne Quintuplets - Day At Home

Ephemeral film · 13 min

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Silent film that looks at a day in the life of the world famous Dionne Quintuplets.

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Running time
13 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★★ · Interesting 1930's Quint Propaganda · calamtykel · 2022-11-15

As much as we know it was wrong for the girls to be raised in the way we see on film, it was actually far better for them and safer for their well being than living with their parents who were both very abusive. The Dionne girls were sexually abused multiple times by their father and lived in constant fear of being alone with them. Their mother was verbally and physically abusive to the girls and was a nasty person in general who knew exactly what her husband was doing to her daughters. Their siblings as well, did not accept them. The girls were forced to do twice as much work as their…