Thanks to Boise Ed for suggesting this one, and providing the “fifth wall” classification! :-)
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Isn’t that the first wall?
The idea is brilliant, but the umpire should have been placed near a base (with a 90-degree turn in the base path); and although the runner is clearly “out” because he has left the panel, I would have preferred to see him also be “out” for failing to stay on the base path. As drawn, he appears to be following the rules straight toward the next base.
P.S. Of course, the runner is also “out” for a third reason: he’s out of shape, just like every other (human) character In The Bleachers.
And there’s another good one today, at gocomics.com/bc/2023/11/07
Here’s an embedded version of the one Ed pointed out:
With minor exceptions, a runner leaving the base path is out only if the defense is trying to tag them.
One of Tex Avery’s Droopy shorts has a wolf skidding off the film, past the sprocket holes, when trying to navigate a turn. A Fleischer Popeye titled “Goonland” had the film snapping and the goons dropping out of the upper half of the frame, after which a live action hand safety-pinned the halves together. Chuck Jones’s “Duck Amuck” begins with musketeer Daffy moving off the edge of the background onto a blank screen. And in several silent Out of the Inkwell cartoons Koko the Clown escapes the drawing board to wreak havoc in the live action world.
Okay, well, in a non-comedy context, Bergmam’s Persona notoriously has a scene where a projector’s bulb singes and burns a hole in a film, which we then see as a destruction of the image in front of us.
Much of that scene is provided in the first 30 seconds or so of this clip:
Woops, my description is mistaken. What that clip shows at the beginning is also the beginning of Persona, which has the framing of a film being projected, but is not yet the burn-thru destruction scene, which comes much later.
@ mitch – You might as well convert the embedded frame to a standard link, because YouTube reports: “This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube.“, so it cannot play in wordpress.
I just pasted the URL they provided into the comment. No special choice beyond that. I think “might as well” comes down on the side of less effort. It doesn’t play as an embed within the frame that WP puts there; but clicking on the message takes you to YouTube. This is no more inconvenient for the reader than a “standard” link.
I’m a geezer and I saw a frame of film melt in the projector many times. The projector bulb was so hot that a piece of film could take only two seconds of being next to it. If the film jammed in the projector and stopped moving, that was the end of the frame. These young people today wouldn’t know what they were seeing.
Right-o, MiB (11).
@ MiB (11) – I’ve never seen the film melt, but I was once in a theater when the the projector shut down in the middle of a sci-fi movie (the name of which I have forgotten). The funny thing was that for the first few seconds, everyone in the audience (myself included) thought that the black screen was an intentional part of the movie, until the projectionist apologized. He managed to restart it once or twice, but finally had to give up, and we all got coupons for a later date.
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Isn’t that the first wall?
The idea is brilliant, but the umpire should have been placed near a base (with a 90-degree turn in the base path); and although the runner is clearly “out” because he has left the panel, I would have preferred to see him also be “out” for failing to stay on the base path. As drawn, he appears to be following the rules straight toward the next base.
P.S. Of course, the runner is also “out” for a third reason: he’s out of shape, just like every other (human) character In The Bleachers.
And there’s another good one today, at gocomics.com/bc/2023/11/07
Here’s an embedded version of the one Ed pointed out:
With minor exceptions, a runner leaving the base path is out only if the defense is trying to tag them.
One of Tex Avery’s Droopy shorts has a wolf skidding off the film, past the sprocket holes, when trying to navigate a turn. A Fleischer Popeye titled “Goonland” had the film snapping and the goons dropping out of the upper half of the frame, after which a live action hand safety-pinned the halves together. Chuck Jones’s “Duck Amuck” begins with musketeer Daffy moving off the edge of the background onto a blank screen. And in several silent Out of the Inkwell cartoons Koko the Clown escapes the drawing board to wreak havoc in the live action world.
Okay, well, in a non-comedy context, Bergmam’s Persona notoriously has a scene where a projector’s bulb singes and burns a hole in a film, which we then see as a destruction of the image in front of us.
Much of that scene is provided in the first 30 seconds or so of this clip:
Woops, my description is mistaken. What that clip shows at the beginning is also the beginning of Persona, which has the framing of a film being projected, but is not yet the burn-thru destruction scene, which comes much later.
@ mitch – You might as well convert the embedded frame to a standard link, because YouTube reports: “This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube.“, so it cannot play in wordpress.
I just pasted the URL they provided into the comment. No special choice beyond that. I think “might as well” comes down on the side of less effort. It doesn’t play as an embed within the frame that WP puts there; but clicking on the message takes you to YouTube. This is no more inconvenient for the reader than a “standard” link.
I’m a geezer and I saw a frame of film melt in the projector many times. The projector bulb was so hot that a piece of film could take only two seconds of being next to it. If the film jammed in the projector and stopped moving, that was the end of the frame. These young people today wouldn’t know what they were seeing.
Right-o, MiB (11).
@ MiB (11) – I’ve never seen the film melt, but I was once in a theater when the the projector shut down in the middle of a sci-fi movie (the name of which I have forgotten). The funny thing was that for the first few seconds, everyone in the audience (myself included) thought that the black screen was an intentional part of the movie, until the projectionist apologized. He managed to restart it once or twice, but finally had to give up, and we all got coupons for a later date.