What comic devices does E. G. Lutz (1920, Animated Cartoons, ch. X) say an animated cartoon should be built on, and which of his statements are claims rather than examples?
Lutz's stated aim is 'a laugh in every foot of film', and he files the cartoon with extravagant farce. The devices he actually names in chapter X are mostly motion devices: reeling or spinning (blow victim, pinwheel fight, windmill, merry-go-round), freedom from the body's physical limits, regular repetition (a stream of figures, a parade), planned pauses (chase behind a house, hill-climbing) and anticipation completed by consummation (stone and top hat). He gives mechanical/periodic motion as the reason such gags work and claims they 'never fail'; no audience evidence is offered. In the part of the text searched, he does not use the words exaggeration or metamorphosis.
Lutz's stated aim is 'a laugh in every foot of film', and he files the cartoon with extravagant farce. The devices he actually names in chapter X are mostly motion devices: reeling or spinning (blow victim, pinwheel fight, windmill, merry-go-round), freedom from the body's physical limits, regular repetition (a stream of figures, a parade), planned pauses (chase behind a house, hill-climbing) and anticipation completed by consummation (stone and top hat). He gives mechanical/periodic motion as the reason such gags work and claims they 'never fail'; no audience evidence is offered. In the part of the text searched, he does not use the words exaggeration or metamorphosis.
Curator qualifications: Comic devices separated into Lutz's claims vs described examples.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] Lutz's stated aim is 'a laugh in every foot of film', and he files the cartoon with extravagant farce. The devices he actually names in chapter X are mostly motion devices: reeling or spinning (blow victim, pinwheel fight, windmill, merry-go-round), freedom from the body's physical limits, regular repetition (a stream of figures, a parade), planned pauses (chase behind a house, hill-climbing) and anticipation completed by consummation (stone and top hat). He gives mechanical/periodic motion as the reason such gags work and claims they 'never fail'; no audience evidence is offered. In the part of the text searched, he does not use the words exaggeration or metamorphosis. · locator: ch. X source
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