Curse of the Laughing Midget (and a Camel)

[RCMerchant]

                 

          [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJuaZKBABO0

[Scott]

Phew ! ! ! ..................that hurt.   

[Shadow]

For a long time I thought that camel was going to poop.

[Rev. Powell]

I think the midget was laughing because the camel is constipated.  At least that was my take.

What a trailer for Herzog's "Even Dwarfs Started Small"!  I really need to see the whole thing now.   

[Raffine]

EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL is a good film to know about when someone claims THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN is the only film with an all-midget cast.

I'm a long time fan of Herzog, but this is by far his most difficult film for me. Almost completely plotless, it appears to be about a gang of lunatics taking over the asylum where they're inmates. What makes it hard to watch is it  contains some disturbing images of animal cruelty that Herzog now says he deeply regrets. If you know this going in, you can enjoy it as without a doubt one of the most bizarre and surreal films around. Like THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN, the script never mentions the fact everyone is a midget.

Herzog likes to tell the story of how, in payment for all the dangerous and disgusting things he put the actors through on this film, he let the midget actors film him as he jumped into a cactus patch. I love listening to Herzog's commentaries on any of his films, where he relates all kinds of outrageous stories in his deapan delivery.

THere's a rumor that Helmut Doring, the midget in the clip, is actually Harry Earles, who played Hans in FREAKS almost 30 years earlier.

[RCMerchant]

 Herzog?! Is that what this is? I had no clue! I was looking at a clip of a midget Micheal Jackson wannabe ( I don't know why!) and stumbled on this.
  Odd! Saterday I saw a film on IFC with Herzog called INCIDENT at LOCH NESS about Herzog's attempt to make a documentary about the Loch Ness monster. It seems during the filming something kept ramming they're boat...and one of the crew actually died during filming! Now...I wonder if it is some bizzare p**s take or what...?!?!

 Ahhhhhhh.....I just did an IMDB on the Loch Ness film...wow. I HIGHLY recommed it...a real treat!

 

[indianasmith]

I saw the LOCH NESS film some time ago . . . too bad it's only a pseudodocumentary.