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How Humorists Make Us Laugh. Part 1 (1956)
About this film
The services of Artist John Drummond of Iowa State College are utilized in this episode to show another method of causing laughter, that of the use of the caricature. He draws a caricature of lecturer Feinberg. The artists techniques are then analyzed and demonstrated to show just how he goes about emphasizing certain features and deemphasizing others to make his subject appear funny. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Directors & creators
WOI-TV (Television station : Ames, Iowa)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Humor, Laughter, Comedy writing, Leonard Feinberg, Iowa State College, Educational television, Television history, 1950s, Satire, Comic techniques, National Educational Television (NET), WOI-TV, Man and Laughter, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Distortion of the familiar, Exaggeration, Court jesters, Clowns, Mass communication, Comedy industry, Public television, History of comedy, Writing for television
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