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  • Program

    Cruel and Unusual Comedy

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    Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Astonishing Shorts from the Slapstick Era

    Edgar's Feast Day. 1921. USA. Directed by Mason N. Litson
  • Film series

    Lame Brains and Lunatics: Cruel and Unusual Comedy, Part 4

    Feed ‘Em and Weep. 1928. USA. Directed by Fred Guiol. A Hal Roach Production
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    More Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Social Commentary in the American Slapstick Film, Part 2

    Hearts and Flowers. 1919. USA. Directed by Edward Cline
  • Film series

    Cruel and Unusual Comedy Reprised

    Hearts and Flowers. 1919. USA. Directed by Edward Cline
  • Film series

    Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Social Commentary in the American Slapstick Film

    Haunted Spooks. 1920. USA. Directed by Hal Roach. Courtesy of Harold Lloyd Entertainment
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    Cruel and Unusual Comedy, Part 3: Selections from the Eye Film Institute, The Netherlands

    Onésime horlogemaker. 1912. France. Directed by Jean Durand
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    Cruel and Unusual Slapstick Comedies

    Lonesome Luke’s Wild Women. 1917. Directed by Hal Roach. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive
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    Hits of the Past

    Torpedoed by Cupid. 1916. USA. Directed by Marcel Perez
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    Working Girls

    Powdered Chickens. 1925. USA. Directed by Edward Ludwig
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    Loco-Motives: On the Wrong Track

    By Stork Delivery. 1916. USA. Directed by Fred Fishback
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    Ethnic Profiling: Stereotypically Speaking

    The Detectress. 1919. USA. Directed by Bruno C. Becker and Gale Henry
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    Chaplinitis: The Heartbreak of Big Feet

    Mustered Out. 1920. USA.
  • Film series

    To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. 1943. USA. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Image courtesy of Academy Film Archive, ITV Studios Global Entertainment, and the BFI
  • Event

    Love and War: Romantic Skirmishes

    He Loved the Ladies. 1914. USA. Glenn Cavender
  • Event

    Scared Silent

    Publicity shot of A Ton of Fun. Frank “Fatty” Alexander front, Hilliard “Fatt” Karr back, left, and Bill “Kewpie” Ross back right
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    Westward Whoa

    Honest Injun. 1926. USA. Directed by Thomas Taurog
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    Sports Injuries: Fits in Fitness

    Hearts and Diamonds. 1914. USA. Directed by George D. Baker
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    Wage Slaves and Working Stiffs

    The Paper Hangers. 1920. USA. Produced by Morris Schlank
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    Slapstick Hash

    Loose Lions and Fast Lovers. 1920. USA. Directed by Fred S. Fishback
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