Farmer Al Falfa is a patrolman rollerskating through the park. A day of misadventures climaxes with a monkey stealing his clothes.
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Paul Terry’s Day at the Park arrives like a brittle nitrate postcard from an alternate 1920 where physics took a sabbatical and dignity was optional. The film, barely seven minutes of jittery ink, is a pocket cosmos of centrifugal panic: every line wobbles, every background shrub jitters as though secretly laughing. F...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Paul Terry
Lloyd Ingraham
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" Paul Terry’s Day at the Park arrives like a brittle nitrate postcard from an alternate 1920 where physics took a sabbatical and dignity was optional. The film, barely seven minutes of jittery ink, is a pocket cosmos of centrifugal panic: every line wobbles, every background shrub jitters as though secretly laughing. Farmer Al Falfa—part-time hayseed, full-time municipal martyr—dons a patrolman’s coat two sizes too ambitious and roller-skates whose wheels seem forged by the same malevolent greml..."
