Cockeyed: Gems from the Memory of a Nutty Cameraman(1925)

Overview

Cockeyed, which manipulates city scenes of New York into visual fantasies, is a segment from Pathé Review, a one-reel U.S. weekly begun in 1920 and promoted as “the Magazine of the Screen.” Pathé distinguished its weekly newsreel (“all news all the time”) from its lighter Review (“the best obtainable…scenics and the like”).

Director: Alvin Knechtel