
The Kinetic Surrealism of the Herriman Threshold To witness The Hinges on the Bar Room Door is to observe the primordial soup of American slapstick as it begins to crawl onto the dry land of narrative structure. George Herriman, the mastermind who would later gift the world the sublime absurdity of ...


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" The Kinetic Surrealism of the Herriman Threshold To witness The Hinges on the Bar Room Door is to observe the primordial soup of American slapstick as it begins to crawl onto the dry land of narrative structure. George Herriman, the mastermind who would later gift the world the sublime absurdity of Krazy Kat, brings a jagged, nervous energy to this production that distinguishes it from the more pedestrian comedies of its era. While films like Jumbles and Jokers relied on broa..."


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