Billy Whiskers is an ambitious goat who's looking for the right career. He tries driving a taxi, but finds that it doesn't suit him.
Frances Trego Montgomery
United States
In the flicker of a 1919 carbon-arc projector, Billy Whiskers materializes less as cuddly children’s fare and more as a curio of proletarian aspiration—an anthropomorphic résumé etched in silver nitrate. Directors H.A. Spanuth and his uncredited collaborators fracture the pastoral idyll, hurling their cloven protagoni...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
H.A. Spanuth
Maurice Campbell
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" In the flicker of a 1919 carbon-arc projector, Billy Whiskers materializes less as cuddly children’s fare and more as a curio of proletarian aspiration—an anthropomorphic résumé etched in silver nitrate. Directors H.A. Spanuth and his uncredited collaborators fracture the pastoral idyll, hurling their cloven protagonist into a Taylorized cityscape where employment itself becomes a carnival of misfires. Visual Alchemy Between Barn and Boulevard Notice how the taxi sequence opts for low-angle sh..."
