The Big Stick / An Old Reel
1973, English. Directed by Saul Levine.
Saul Levine spent six years (from 1967-1973) cutting up and re-editing 8mm prints of two Charlie Chaplin shorts, IN THE PARK and EASY STREET, into a dynamic yet dreamy deconstruction of physical and narrative movement. What begins with Chaplin looping around in circular repetitions between a cop and an ominous vagrant becomes more fractured as the film expands. News footage of police arresting protesters (shot from a television screen on black-and-white 8mm film) is cut into the comedy of cops and criminals (a shot of political reality amidst slapstick fantasy) and images are abstracted by rapid-fire cutting. Even the physical cuts on the celluloid become part of the image as Levine chops through the frames themselves, leaving broad gashes on the screen and fracturing images until they overlap with the next shot and the suggestions of narrative are whirled into a frenzy of motion.
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- 0h 10m
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- 1 January 1973
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The Big Stick / An Old Reel runs 10 minutes (0h 10m).
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The Big Stick / An Old Reel isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1973. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Big Stick / An Old Reel?
The Big Stick / An Old Reel (1973) was directed by Saul Levine.