Tag: James Williamson
Here’s an imaginative 4-minute film from 1905 by James Williamson about a man who gets so wrapped up in the book he’s reading that he is oblivious to the world around him. (Yes, had I known about it a month ago I would have included it in this post about the “oblivious gag.”) YouTuber changebeforegoing labels this “the first slapstick movie.” I would argue the point, but of course it all depends on how you define slapstick.
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My first book (1976)
My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
My second book (2015)
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin