..I married Bert when I was seventeen.I never knew any other kind of life.Just cooking and washing and having children - (The camera pans toward a framed picture of Mildred""s wo beloved, teenaged daughters perched on the piano) two girls, Veda and Kay.A giant tooth dangles from the hood of he buggy down into the driver""s seat.Dr.""Painless"" Potter (Gunther von Ritzau), a transient quack dentist/surgeon, distributes leaflets o people on the porch of the saloon, bowing as he does so.Its pioneering technical work, often the work of Griffith""s under-rated cameraman Billy Bitzer, includes many techniques that are now standard features of films, but first used in this film.] She smartly answers without any air of mystery or femininity:Scottie (pointing out a bra hanging next to her work area): What""s this doo-hickey?Midge: It""s a brassiere.