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A Day's Outing
Zigoto is bored with his current course of reading at home, so he invites he friends to go on a drive in the country with him in this comedy short directed by Jean Durand.
It's pure mechanical slapstick, with an automobile that goes where it wants to, whether driver, passengers or small buildings want to or no. In addition, the car gradually acquires the sort of distorted appearance that would not be matched until Laurel & Hardy would run their vehicle through a saw mill.
Although the purely destructive European style of slapstick is foreign to the modern audience, and even its politer -- yes, politer! -- American variety is seen as primitive and chaotic, this is a fine example of the funny work that Durand's shorts department was producing, when they weren't doing westerns.
It's pure mechanical slapstick, with an automobile that goes where it wants to, whether driver, passengers or small buildings want to or no. In addition, the car gradually acquires the sort of distorted appearance that would not be matched until Laurel & Hardy would run their vehicle through a saw mill.
Although the purely destructive European style of slapstick is foreign to the modern audience, and even its politer -- yes, politer! -- American variety is seen as primitive and chaotic, this is a fine example of the funny work that Durand's shorts department was producing, when they weren't doing westerns.
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- boblipton
- Feb 3, 2019
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- Zigoto's Outing with Friends
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- Runtime5 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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