Underground film parodied American political figures as camp spectacle by 1968

Evidence

Kidnapping and Auctioning of Wendell Wilkie [sic] by the Love Bandit—an all black-and-white presentation starring the diminutive Rosenthal, lipstick’d and unshaven, as the infant Willkie, abducted by a mustachioed pirate (drag king Doris Desmond) and sold on the block of a slave market modeled on the one in the 1942 Maria Montez vehicle, Arabian Nights. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1383

Categorization

• XREF: Extends reader’s interest in the two-part structure: Subcultures to Countercultures — this shows the transition as politics itself becomes raw material for the scene.