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Bowers plays a consistent persona of a go-getting young inventor with a curly cowlick. The five 1926 two-reelers mark a personal creative explosion, often literalized. An opening credit announces “Cartoons by Bowers” as a sign of the artist’s assertion of creativity.

The allegory warns them, with speech balloons, not to go riding with “Miss Joy” lest they face the music with Judge Gloom. (1918), a public service announcement aimed at servicemen awaiting discharge at the end of WWI. The other work of hand-drawn animation is A.W.O.L. Because this example concerns a restaurant where the food, especially soups, are transferred from kitchen to table by tubes or funnels, the film forecasts how Bowers will go wild with this concept in his 1926 film, He Done His Best. We can argue that this quality encouraged surreal transformation, a world of flux where things change into other things by the movement of lines. At this time, movie cartoons derived mostly from comic strips without being as visually sophisticated, for the animators often eschewed shaded backgrounds in favor of stark line drawings that hang in a white limbo. The Extra-Quick Lunch (1917) comes from the popular Mutt and Jeff series of animated cartoons on which Bowers worked for ten years. Muller, who acted as director or co-director and photographer for the rest of Bowers’ career. Disc 1 opens with two examples of the kinds of hand-drawn animations that occupied Bowers before he founded his own production company in 1926 with Harold L. Now, Serge Bromberg of France’s Lobster Films, in association with Blackhawk Films, has pooled the best material from a wide array of archives for this new restoration of 17 films. In 2004, Image Films released the first DVD attempt at a definitive collection, Charley Bowers: The Rediscovery of an American Genius. After he died forgotten in 1946, his work remained in eclipse until a handful of items turned up in the Belgian Cinematik in the 1960s, for Bowers was especially popular among the Surrealists. The Extraordinary World of Charley Bowers gathers and restores what remains of an elusive pioneer, a filmmaker-comedian who thought of himself as an inventor and animator.

The Extraordinary World of Charley Bowers

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