That the visionaries at Found Footage Festival discovered this “Mastering the Art of Carving” video in a Detroit thrift store isn't so strange. Scavenging and repurposing campy video treasures is their-stock-in-trade. That they had the fortitude to transform ham-master Merle Ellis' earnest educational video into a comical, ultra “ham”-my montage is another matter. Country ham or a city ham, neither can compete with the hams at the editing bay behind this doozy.

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