PennSound Cinema

FAT FEET, a Yellow Ball / Ruckus Films Production, 1965-66

An animated film,  ca. 20 min.

The Nervous Magic Lantern

The Nervous Magic Lantern is strikingly low-tech and could have come about centuries ago. Longer than that and perhaps it did and was thought too strange and avoid­ed like sin. A lightweight propeller steadily turns, inter­rupting a beam of light. This is almost the only difference from when sunlight, coming in through a small opening into a dark space, sent an inverted image of the outside world onto cave walls. Unknowing creatures were scared out of their wits but I know this for a fact that one enter­prising fellow held his hand over the opening and, saying he had an in with Superior Forces, charged admission to see the “miracle”, inventing religion, theater and exploita­tive capitalism all in one brilliant stroke.

Paradise
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/file/108867
Country Su Casa
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/file/108885
Color Idioms
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/file/108868
El Atlantis
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/file/108883

Frank Kuenstler (1928-1996) was a poet best known for his remarkable LENS (1964, published by Film Culture; available in full from Eclipse). While Kuenstler's  work as a film maker was rumored, the films themeselves only surfaced recently, ...