Mario operates the Bolex on The Joke; the Cambridge-to-Berkeley flights

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texture · JOI's anticonfluential period

When: JOI's "anticonfluential middle period" (JOI alive).
What: On JOI's most-hated film, The Joke, one of the tri-lensed Bolexes was "complexly mounted on the huge head of the oddly forward-listing boy with what looked like a steel spike coming out of his thorax" — Mario, who with JOI would frantically pack up and fly Cambridge-to-Berkeley to set up for each venue-only showing. Hal notes Mario "gets his fetish for cartridges about puppets and entr'actes and audiences from their late father."

Mario operates the Bolex on *The Joke*; the Cambridge-to-Berkeley flights