The Inauguration of a Mechanical Bird in 2895, in New York City (1981)

Overview

The Inauguration of a Mechanical Bird in 2895, in New York City. The 4-minute burlesque motion picture with silent picture-style intertitles mocks the naively utopian world of the Victorian age. The film was inspired by the bitter satires of the elderly Jules Verne, in which a distorting mirror is held up to American civilization

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