
Timothy Webb's wealthy father objects to his son's light-hearted lifestyle and expels him from his will. He has to work as a plumber in the factory that his father has bequeathed to his uncle.


The first time I encountered Uncharted Channels it was a 9.5-mm fragment flickering on a hand-cranked portable in a Parisian cellar—just enough footage for the ghost of Timothy Webb’s tuxedo to catch fire from a wayward welding spark. Even mutilated, the images hissed with class venom: every intertitle a guillotine, e...

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" The first time I encountered Uncharted Channels it was a 9.5-mm fragment flickering on a hand-cranked portable in a Parisian cellar—just enough footage for the ghost of Timothy Webb’s tuxedo to catch fire from a wayward welding spark. Even mutilated, the images hissed with class venom: every intertitle a guillotine, every close-up a monologue on how money calcifies the heart. Months later, when a near-complete 35-mm print surfaced in the basement of a Lyon convent (long story involving a mislab..."

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