The plot of this movie is as ridiculous as its misspelt title. I've never heard of Jefferson Machamer, but he was apparently a successful comic-strip artist. Still, his career as depicted here is sheer wish-fulfilment: he has a huge opulent studio, and he pays gorgeous models to lounge about so that he can sketch them at his leisure. Oh, yes.
Even more offensive than this insult to my intelligence is some unfunny racial humour: Machamer has a black manservant named 'Cloudy', whom he mistreats while Cloudy says things like 'Yassuh, Marse Jeff'son'. Memo to this movie: Lincoln freed the slaves.
I was more impressed by a couple of sequences in which Machamer executes an entire drawing on-camera, undercranked so that his technique is sped up in time. Much more interesting for me than Machamer's linework is his scumbling technique: he scumbles with his fingers, without letting go of the pencil. I might have recommended this movie to would-be artists just for this brief glimpse of Machamer's scumbling technique ... but nowadays, with computer graphics software replacing hand-scumbling, why bother? My rating for this unfunny, racist and implausible movie: 1 point out of 10.
Even more offensive than this insult to my intelligence is some unfunny racial humour: Machamer has a black manservant named 'Cloudy', whom he mistreats while Cloudy says things like 'Yassuh, Marse Jeff'son'. Memo to this movie: Lincoln freed the slaves.
I was more impressed by a couple of sequences in which Machamer executes an entire drawing on-camera, undercranked so that his technique is sped up in time. Much more interesting for me than Machamer's linework is his scumbling technique: he scumbles with his fingers, without letting go of the pencil. I might have recommended this movie to would-be artists just for this brief glimpse of Machamer's scumbling technique ... but nowadays, with computer graphics software replacing hand-scumbling, why bother? My rating for this unfunny, racist and implausible movie: 1 point out of 10.