An elephant cop is flirting with a Hippopotumus girl in the park. Nervy Ignatz stands up to him, and scares him off, impressing the girl.
George Herriman
United States

The first miracle is that the film exists at all: a 35mm ribbon of nitrate gossamer, slipped between newsreels and temperance sermons in 1920, now digitized yet still smelling of popcorn lightning and moral static. George Herriman’s ink-line cosmos—previously confined to newsprint margins—bursts into flickering phos...


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Vernon Stallings

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" The first miracle is that the film exists at all: a 35mm ribbon of nitrate gossamer, slipped between newsreels and temperance sermons in 1920, now digitized yet still smelling of popcorn lightning and moral static. George Herriman’s ink-line cosmos—previously confined to newsprint margins—bursts into flickering phosphorescence under Vernon Stallings’ direction, and the result is less a cartoon than a pagan opera performed by zoo escapees. The elephant policeman, badge flaring like a locomotiv..."
Animation, Comedy, Short

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