In a circus, Mutt becomes a lion tamer and Jeff has plenty troubles of his own..
Bud Fisher
United States
The first time I watched Dead Eye Jeff I was hunched over a 9.5 mm bootleg on a light-box the size of a postcard; the second time, I projected it onto the cracked plaster of my living-room wall and the lion’s maw looked wide enough to swallow the whole Gilded Age. Fisher’s four-minute loop is a sui generis artifact:...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Bud Fisher
Bud Fisher
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" The first time I watched Dead Eye Jeff I was hunched over a 9.5 mm bootleg on a light-box the size of a postcard; the second time, I projected it onto the cracked plaster of my living-room wall and the lion’s maw looked wide enough to swallow the whole Gilded Age. Fisher’s four-minute loop is a sui generis artifact: a vaudeville gag strip that leapt off the page, sprinted through Ellis Island, and dove head-first into the nickelodeon boom. It survives only because a projectionist in Duluth vi..."
