Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man.
Charles Chaplin
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The Magnificent Absurdity of Chaplin’s Insect Orchestra Cinema’s first great exploration of interspecies labor relations unfolds not on sweeping plains or in industrial factories, but within a matchbox. Charles Chaplin’s astonishingly peculiar 1919 short The Professor presents Professor Bosco (Albert Austin)—a threa...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin
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" The Magnificent Absurdity of Chaplin’s Insect Orchestra Cinema’s first great exploration of interspecies labor relations unfolds not on sweeping plains or in industrial factories, but within a matchbox. Charles Chaplin’s astonishingly peculiar 1919 short The Professor presents Professor Bosco (Albert Austin)—a threadbare impresario whose traveling performers could fit on a thumbnail. The genius lies in Chaplin’s alchemical ability to transform the most humiliating poverty into poetry. When Bo..."
