Episodes 2 and 3 of Waterhouse, the subatomic minicomic by Japa Fett. In these episodes, we get sudden, extreme perspective, and things break out of stick-figure flatland to become somewhat three-dimensional. If JF had kept drawing the strip after around 1991 it’d be virtual reality by now. Or actual reality.
From THE MARATHON, a 1919 Harold Lloyd short. I guess it was too soon to be making flu jokes, but the measles was fair game.
This is a good one: Lloyd seems to have his “glasses” character well in hand. Though there’s a disappointing amount of dwarf-slapping, Harold himself doesn’t indulge in it, and the filmmakers (including director Alf Goulding) are careful to show him patting a cute puppy in his first shot.
And his introductory title is a magnificent definition of the Lloyd persona:
I feel kinda guilty but also relieved that work has been flowing in more steadily than usual during this thing. My latest video essay, Money Has Been My Ruin, tells the story of Vittorio De Sica and is an extra on Arrow Academy’s new release of BICYCLE THIEVES, a substantial upgrade transferred from the original camera negative.
I like it when I’m unqualified for a job and have to research it — I think those circs result in some of my better pieces. With this one I had seen relatively little De Sica and was way behind on my neorealist viewing generally, but it incentivised me to catch up. Fortunately I had made inroads already…
And it was all worth it just to uncover this still:
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