Mutt takes a customer's order literally and puts a kitten in the pousse café. A riot follows in their cabaret as a result.
Bud Fisher
United States
The Anarchic Genesis of Visual Comedy To witness The Pousse Cafe is to peer through a temporal keyhole into the raw, unrefined infancy of cinematic humor. Directed and written by the visionary cartoonist Bud Fisher, this short film represents a pivotal moment where the serialized daily comic strip—s...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Bud Fisher
Bud Fisher
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" The Anarchic Genesis of Visual Comedy To witness The Pousse Cafe is to peer through a temporal keyhole into the raw, unrefined infancy of cinematic humor. Directed and written by the visionary cartoonist Bud Fisher, this short film represents a pivotal moment where the serialized daily comic strip—specifically the exploits of Mutt and Jeff—began to colonize the burgeoning medium of film. Unlike the polished melodramas of the era, such as Syndens datter, Fisher’s work eschews ..."
