
Mutt and Jeff desert their jobs as bookkeepers and start a photograph gallery..

Bud Fisher
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The first time I projected Look Pleasant Please on my living-room wall—16mm print spliced with Scotch tape that smells like childhood basements—I half expected the film to combust. After all, Bud Fisher’s celluloid mutiny against bookkeeping is the sort of combustible fantasy that should come with a sulfur warning. M...


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" The first time I projected Look Pleasant Please on my living-room wall—16mm print spliced with Scotch tape that smells like childhood basements—I half expected the film to combust. After all, Bud Fisher’s celluloid mutiny against bookkeeping is the sort of combustible fantasy that should come with a sulfur warning. Mutt’s skeleton-on-stilts silhouette lurches across the opening frame like a Calder mobile caught in a windstorm; Jeff, all puffed-chest bluster, waddles behind him like a self-infl..."


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