Big Bertha
Music from the St. Louis Melody Museum collection of band machines
An American allegory in which a happily married couple and their daughter visit an amusement park where Big Bertha, a mechanical doll, corrupts them. "A hair-raising, though provoking, brilliant work that starts out as hilarious comedy and ends as tragedy...It moves with inescapable power from innocent pleasures to incestuous rape" - Dorothy Samachson, Chicago Daily News
Photos: Jack Mitchell