Is it any wonder that the first alternative comic book artists like R. Crumb and Kim Deitch give immense credit to Max Fleischer, animator of Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Bimbo the Dog, Popeye, and Superman? Fleischer’s cartoons definitely have a surreal feel about them, lending themselves to psychedelic inspiration.
MORE ...This is a humorous gag trailer for a horror movie night that a local US theater ran in the 1950’s, Bug-O-Rama … “Your skin will crawl, your flesh will creep, after you’ve seen our Bug-O-Rama. It’s the show to recommend to your enemies. The unbearable terror may drive them MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD. A licensed […]
MORE ...Amazing to think that professional people got paid to cook up masterpieces such as Gothic American Cornflakes. But are times really different today, forty years later? The recipe is quite simple, really. Take one part cornflakes, one part current youth culture cliche, throw in a little General Mills dough, then marinade in Madison Avenue saccharin and […]
MORE ...Smoke. Talk. Relax. In your own car. There’s always is a Good Show the Drive-in.
MORE ...So They Tell Me, circa 1919, skewers the top headlines of its day, the World War I era. Crude animation attempts to punctuate the sardonic and off-color humor supplied by political raconteur Warren W. Brown. Though the jokes are somewhat arcane by today’s standards, the tone tries to balance between being bombastic and nativist. Targets include labor […]
MORE ...It’s Everybody’s Business – 1954
MORE ...A brutal documentary account detailing the infamous Sao Paolo high rise fire of February 1, 1974. With a strange 1970’s era electronic music soundtrack, shocking photo-journalistic footage, iconic animation, and a deadpan narration, the film deconstructs the deadly conflagration and what went wrong.
MORE ...Max Fleischer paired Betty Boop with viper man Louis Armstrong in the mid 1930’s. In it Fleischer mixes jazz, live action, and animation to create an innovative, dreamlike world. Pops or Satchmo, as he was often called, was a lifelong tea head who enjoyed cannabis not just to unwind, but also smoked gage, as he called it, […]
MORE ...“News Sketches by Max Fleischer” is a short cartoon created by famed animator Max Fleischer with an irreverent take on bizarre stories “drawn from the wires of the Associated Press.” As the news ticker types away, Fleischer literally illustrates the stories with pen and ink before our very eyes. Using a combination of stop motion […]
MORE ...The Ko-Ko Glee Klub marched all the way to this theatre to cheer you up with the tune that made grandpa “step out” in the good old days. “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,” (The Boys are Marching) Watch the bouncing ball, Join in and sing – EVERYBODY! In the prison cell I sit, Thinking mother dear, of […]
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