Jimmy attempts to perfect an invention for shelling peanuts. He uses so much gas he is accused by revenue officers of having a still.
Scott Darling
United States
The year 1919 stood as a temporal bridge between the scorched-earth trauma of the Great War and the impending hedonism of the Roaring Twenties. In this fragile interim, the cinematic landscape was increasingly fascinated by the intrusion of industrial complexity into the pastoral and the domestic. Peanuts, a short su...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Scott Darling
Charley Chase
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" The year 1919 stood as a temporal bridge between the scorched-earth trauma of the Great War and the impending hedonism of the Roaring Twenties. In this fragile interim, the cinematic landscape was increasingly fascinated by the intrusion of industrial complexity into the pastoral and the domestic. Peanuts, a short subject directed with a keen eye for the absurd, serves as a poignant, if ostensibly lighthearted, artifact of this era. Written by the prolific Scott Darling, the film eschews the g..."
