Mutt and Jeff are attorneys-at-law and are visited by a woman who wants to apply for a patent "squall stopper," an invention for quieting crying children..
Bud Fisher
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Bud Fisher’s one-reel curio Sweet Papa lands like a cat tossed through a stained-glass skylight: all shards, shine, and yowling surprise. Filmed in the same year the 19th Amendment was ratified and the American patent office was choking on applications for every imaginable mechanical cradle, the short feels—at first...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Bud Fisher
Bud Fisher
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" Bud Fisher’s one-reel curio Sweet Papa lands like a cat tossed through a stained-glass skylight: all shards, shine, and yowling surprise. Filmed in the same year the 19th Amendment was ratified and the American patent office was choking on applications for every imaginable mechanical cradle, the short feels—at first glance—like a throwaway doodle. Yet beneath its jittery, under-cranked surface lies a sardonic X-ray of a culture trying to litigate its way out of entropy. Fisher, syndicate cart..."
