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We were really surprised by the extraordinarily wacky and absurdist humor of early filmmakers. Our documentary, These Amazing Shadows, focuses on the National Film Registry, so naturally we immersed ourselves in the incredible diversity of the 550 films on the list (Hollywood classics, avant-garde, documentaries, animation, home movies, silents and more). What quickly jumped out was that Monty Python, Saturday Night Live and Seinfeld have nothing on early filmmakers. Let’s just take two silent films as examples (I know some of you are thinking, “Silent films are boring!” but come on, stay with us): There It Is (1928), a short directed by Harold L. Muller starring Charles Bowers and The Gold Rush (1925), written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.
There It Is concerns the investigation of the zany domestic disruptions caused by the Fuzz-Faced Phantom (that name alone should entice you). What ensues is a series of surreal events: animated...
We were really surprised by the extraordinarily wacky and absurdist humor of early filmmakers. Our documentary, These Amazing Shadows, focuses on the National Film Registry, so naturally we immersed ourselves in the incredible diversity of the 550 films on the list (Hollywood classics, avant-garde, documentaries, animation, home movies, silents and more). What quickly jumped out was that Monty Python, Saturday Night Live and Seinfeld have nothing on early filmmakers. Let’s just take two silent films as examples (I know some of you are thinking, “Silent films are boring!” but come on, stay with us): There It Is (1928), a short directed by Harold L. Muller starring Charles Bowers and The Gold Rush (1925), written, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.
There It Is concerns the investigation of the zany domestic disruptions caused by the Fuzz-Faced Phantom (that name alone should entice you). What ensues is a series of surreal events: animated...
- 1/19/2011
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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