Duck Amuck (1953) by Chuck Jones
Thursday, March 21, 1985, 8:00 pm
20th Century Humor
Duck Amuck by Chuck Jones
Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur by Sidney Peteerson
Wide Angle Saxon by Owen Land (a.k.a Geroge Landow)
Sherlock Jr. by Buster Keaton
Film Watchers by Herbert Jean De Grasse
The Last of the Persimmons by Pat O’Neill
Programmed by Konrad Steiner and David Gerstein.
Cinema has matured in its own century not without a singular brand of self-reflexive humor. The films tonight characteristically admit a self-awareness of the conventions and techniques of the movies to the point of turning them back on themselves in a hilarious spoof of the medium. The characters of these stories include the venerable Daffy Duck (animated here by Bugs Bunny), TV news cameraman Earl Grieves (the “wide angle saxon”), and, of course, Buster Keaton himself as a dreaming projectionist.