Has anybody ever heard of this? I found it on YouTube while searching for Harold Lloyd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ue3dly1zjk
Are there anymore of these available?
Sara
Tomato is Another Day
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Wow. That's really...something...or other...
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Ed Wood Meets Tim Burton.
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That's an interesting movie, Sara. Sibley Watson was a poet and avant-garde filmmaker. I’ve seen his Fall of the House of Usher (1928) (not to be confused with the more famous Jean Epstein version from the same year); but this film was new to me. Interestingly, Watson’s version of the Poe story completely lacks intertitles, so, at a guess, I’d say he was one of those avant-gardists who trusted the “autonomy of the image,” outside of any verbal supplement. Hence this little movie about the redundancy of words.
Of course, none of this is very funny (well, maybe in a David Lynch kind of way). I wonder what was the first real comedy to satirize talking pictures? Sennett’s A Hollywood Star (1929) (off the top of my head)?
Of course, none of this is very funny (well, maybe in a David Lynch kind of way). I wonder what was the first real comedy to satirize talking pictures? Sennett’s A Hollywood Star (1929) (off the top of my head)?
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Rob King wrote: I wonder what was the first real comedy to satirize talking pictures? Sennett’s A Hollywood Star (1929) (off the top of my head)?
Tho it's not a comedy, my vote goes to A Cottage on Dartmour (1929) tho I don't know whether the Sennett short was released first.
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Golly that's weird! Shades of "A Fatal Glass of Beer" just not as funny.
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Tomatos Another Day is available in a beautiful print on Volume 2 of Unseen Cinema, "The Devil's Plaything: American Surrealism." (http://www.unseen-cinema.com/)
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