Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: "Deadeye Dick"

Duration: 60

Year Published: 1983

Creator: Wombat

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: This portrait of Kurt Vonnegut combines reality and fiction to present the author's creative sources. Vonnegut appears as author and actor along side his literary alter-ego, Kilgore Trout. Visual and verbal montages are presented using family stills and anecdotes, footage of Depression breadlines, the bombings of Dresden and the promotional films produced by Vonnegut's early employer, General Electric.

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