| Summary: | INVERTED NARRATIVES is part of the retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. "Little Geezer," Huff's second child burlesque, won attention in amateur film circles for its excellent production and editing. Simultaneously a brilliant parody of popular crime films and a liberal adaptation of Eisenstein's "Potemkin"-type montage, "Little Geezer "ranked in the top ten in an "American Cinematographer" contest for amateur makers. --CHUCK KLEINHANS Ted Huff made short films including two child burlesques, "Hearts of the West" (1931) and "Little Geezer "(1932), collaborated on "Mr. Motorboat's Last Stand "(1933) and "The Uncomfortable Man" (1948), wrote the first US director study, "Chaplin", and was active as a collector of film stills, critic, film society activist, silent film pianist, film archivist, and college teacher. --CHUCK KLEINHANSTheodore Huff was one of the country's foremost film historians at a time when almost nobody took film history really seriously. He grew up in Fort Lee in the early film-making days there, and made his own personal contributions to the field from the late 20's on. He worked at the Museum of Modern Art for 5 years from 1935, among other things arranging the musical scores for many of their silents.
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