Grawlixes and the movies: chilly willy *!@?*W!!@

 

Tex Avery;  Chilly Willy: the legend of rockabye point (1955)

 grawlixes as silenced or censored curse

https://tellab.home.xs4all.nl/grawlixes/programming.html

 

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Grawlixes and the Kuleshov effect

 the Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov conducted an experiment in which he took a shot of an expressionless face and created three different short films, editing the face with a bowl of hot soup, girl in the coffin, or the seductive woman on a couch. 

Even though we know the shot of the actor exactly the same in each scenario, audiences read meaning into the actor’s face by the nature of the shots around it.

here is a variation that tries to show the effect of Grawlixes 

It shows the similarity between Grawlixes and 'affect'

"If emotions are personal experiences, then affects are the forces (perhaps the flows of energy) that precede, produce, and inform such experiences." (steven shaviro)

And according to Silvan Tomkins feedback of the facial response is the experience of affect

and thus in the grawlixes examples above the same affect can evoke different emotions

and the same expression is interpreted differently when connected to different affects

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gGl3LJ7vHc

 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Does-the-Kuleshov-Effect-Really-Exist-Revisiting-a-Barratt-Redei/d961622d70807f29ce0d2ca4422d9506eb454540

 

Grawlixes and the movies: The King of Bugs (1930)

a variety of Grawlixes popping up after an unexpected crash;

 Grawlixes, Squeens, spurls,  quimps, nittles, confusion and abnormal body posturing

Aesop's Fables; the King of Bugs 1930
John Foster
Harry Baily
van Beuren studio's

Grawlixes and the movies; Happy Hooligan (1917)

Another early and very literal representation of Grawlixes;
Happy Hooligan is offert an unexpected trip to the moon.

He pictures the trip in his eyes but the pictured experience of leaving his normal routine becomes so overwhelming that orbits, shooting stars and two saturns appear outside the balloon and fill the entire panel.
The image of the galaxy and the experience of Grawlixes overlap.

Later in the cartoon there is a parallel experience  that  has no immidiate link with the real galaxy but rather with phosphenes or 'seeing stars' following a smack on the head.

Walter Lantz. Happy Hooigan, A trip to the moon (1917)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I5HB2RrLI4&list=PLH3kk91FHIVCDRQSrOwNcTjxzQ19784r7&index=21

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Grawlixes movies; Earl Hurd, 1917

 Bobby Bumps' Fourth (Earl Hurd, 1917) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQCv-O3-QDY&index=14&list=PLH3kk91FHIVCDRQSrOwNcTjxzQ19784r7

Polly wants a cracker, but the expected cracker turns out to be a firecracker.
Grawlixes appear as stars, swirls and censorded (blanked) curses.

A silent film.

Grawlixes like stars and spirals do not replace sound. (see; programming with grawlixes 1,2,3).
However;
Most Grawlixes seem to have disappeared from the movies with the introduction of sound.

therefore it is likely that;

A. Grawlixes must have some relation with language
B. But not with spoken language

Grawlixes in Metropolis

When the mediator between the hands (factory workers) and the mental faculty in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) discovers that his Romantic ideal, a 'pure' girl, that represents the feelings and emotions, has been replaced by a machine by the head of the mental faculty (his father) and a mad scientist, a variety of Grawlixes appear in the shape of stars, spiraling motions, lightblobs and a skull.