One of the #PublicDomainDay gifts to the world about which I'm most excited this year is 1929's "The Cocoanuts," the first cinematic outing of the #MarxBrothers
Dig the famous Florida land auction bit, the "why a duck?" exchange, and the Marx characters themselves. (CW: 1920s attitudes, one glaring ethnic slur, and some of the drearier non-Marx musical numbers in their canon.)
https://archive.org/details/the-cocoanuts_1929
I'm over the moon about my favorite old comedy team's much-delayed entry into the Public Domain, and included with this film is the Marxes' basic characters which remained pretty consistent over the course of their work. I'm excited not only to share this film, but to see what creative folks can do with it going forward.
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