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Sedmikrásky (Daisies) 1966, directed by Věra Chytilová
Box 17, Document 7: The Grand Dissection of a Rubber Chicken (1908)
I found something today that made me smile.
Not many documents in Box 17 do that.
The paper is old - properly old, dating to 1908. Handwritten in French, though the film title is given in English as well. The handwriting is careful, almost scientific in its precision.
At the top: "The Grand Dissection of a Rubber Chicken"
Subtitle: "A Proto-Comedy in Two Acts"
The description begins with wonderful specificity:
"Laboratory setting. White tiles. Pristine. Crows assembled - severe expressions, monocles in place. Subject on examination table: bright red rubber chicken with squeaker."
A rubber chicken. In 1908.
The document continues:
"Professor R. V. Kruk (lead crow scientist) presents mathematical equations on blackboard: 'the mechanics of absurdity,' 'the geometry of the absurd.' Uses pointer to indicate specimen."
"Intertitle card: 'The subject is the very embodiment of disorder. We shall dissect its properties and find its flaw.'"
They're trying to scientifically analyze a rubber chicken.
I had to stop reading and just... appreciate that premise for a moment.
The "plot" unfolds with beautiful precision:
"Professor attempts measurement with calipers. Chicken squeaks at different frequency each attempt. Data confounded. Dissection attempted with scalpel - blade bounces off with audible 'TWANG!'"
"Background crows begin to twitch. Beaks fighting smiles."
This is where it gets interesting.
"Professor, frustrated, throws chicken at wall. Chicken bounces back, strikes Professor on head, falls perfectly into his teacup."
And then:
"Single involuntary sound from background crow: 'HAW!' Small, guttural. Uncontrolled."
The document includes a note, added in different ink:
"First recorded laugh in crow cinema. Significant."
Let me sit with this for a moment.
The crows - who I've seen throughout these films as obsessed with order, precision, measurement, control - encounter something that cannot be analyzed.
The rubber chicken defeats their mathematics. It won't behave consistently. It bounces when it should stay still. It ends up in a teacup.
And one crow laughs.
Not because it's funny in any sophisticated way. Just because... it's absurd. And absurdity, apparently, is contagious.
The document only describes Act One. There's a note at the bottom:
"Act Two: progressive loss of composure. Additional footage believed lost. Final card reportedly showed entire laboratory in chaos, crows laughing uncontrollably, chicken sitting triumphant on blackboard."
I've been finding these films for weeks now. Some are disturbing (the eye-patterned wallpaper still haunts me). Some are surreal. Some are technically innovative in ways that seem impossible.
But this one is just... joyful?
Crows discovering they can laugh. That rigid scientific analysis fails in the face of a squeaky rubber chicken. That sometimes disorder wins, and that's funny.
Someone made this in 1908.
I keep thinking about that first "HAW!" - involuntary, uncontrolled, the sound escaping before the crow could stop it.
The first laugh.
Has anyone encountered references to early comedy films featuring birds? Or scientific parody from this period?
The paper seems authentic. The description is too detailed, too specific to be fabricated.
But a rubber chicken in 1908? Proto-comedy about crows learning to laugh?
I don't know what to make of Box 17 anymore. I really don't.
But I'm glad this film exists, even if I'll never see it.
— Dr. Eleanor Vess
remake of that one RT iceberg!! it's by no means definitive but I'm more satisfied with this one
I LOVE YOU, MULTIMEDIA FICTION! I LOVE ARGS! I LOVE YOU, TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING! I LOVE YOU, WEIRD NON-COMMERCIAL INDIE PASSION PROJECTS!
Currently working on an academic paper about web fiction and remembering why I love this storytelling style and community so much.
Today i was scolling on my tv for something to watch and i stumbled ontu this.
The streaming service name is just "halloween creepy" , i believe it was made by "bytewiseapps.com".as of right now i have not watched halloween creepy and do not plam to,as i the shady name and ai images does not paint a pretty picture,does any one knows what this is?
Okay,edit:
I found there website and uh...
And yeah,just more scam ai slop,they even have bitcoin.
Weird news! I finally found the weird as hell commercial that used an ALI PROJECT song written for CLAMP that I thought I dreamed.... what was lost can eventually be found!
Well, I did misremember it a bit... but it still uses the first part of the song as a sample.
[LINK TO COMMERCIAL] (2005)
[LINK TO POTENTIAL SAMPLE ORIGIN] (1997)
The main question is who made the song for the commercial. The ALI PROJECT sample seems to be out of tempo which points to a rush job... it's very interesting. The Wish Soundtrack Album was under the Victor label so how a sample ended up in a US commercial is a mystery.