Today’s animators are incorporating the same type of slapstick and visual humor in their movies as silent screen stars used to thrill their audiences.
Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle were masters of visual humor. In today’s movies humor is often lost when translated solely into the spoken word, said Joanna Rapf, a film and video studies professor at Oklahoma University.
“I believe visual humor translates into a full range of emotions,” she said.
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