Hollywood on the Hudson
31 May – 20 September 2009 (except 2 & 9 August)
Every Sunday 11.00am / Cinema A
Free admission
Hollywood on the Hudson features classic films from the 1920s and 1930s that encapsulate a rich, vibrant and culturally aware New York City at a time of great economic and social change. The program points to the beginnings of New York’s film studios, which blossomed into havens for rebellious and unconventional filmmakers who rejected the homogenised Hollywood movie system. Making use of extraordinary New York locations, these films highlight the importance of the east coast studio productions in American cinema history. Unlike many of their Californian counterparts, filmmakers on the east coast drew specific inspiration from the broader cultural roots of the city, while also experimenting with new technologies and pushing the boundaries of censorship. The depth of their contribution remained largely unacknowledged by cinema historians until the recent landmark publication of Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff by pre-eminent film historian Richard Koszarski. Meticulously researched, this definitive history of New York filmmaking in the first half of the twentieth century has provided the inspiration for the film program at the Australian Cinémathèque, which is presented with the generous assistance of Richard Koszarski, The Library of Congress, The Museum of Modern Art, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
While New York Sleeps 1920 Ages 15+
Sunday 31 May and 7 June 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, SILENT (LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT), 100 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH INTERTITLES / DIRECTOR: CHARLES BRABIN / SCRIPT: CHARLES BRABIN, THOMAS F FALLON / CINEMATOGRAPHERS: GEORGE W LANE, BENNIE MIGGINS / CAST: ESTELLE TAYLOR, MARC MCDERMOTT, WILLIAM LOCKE, HARRY SOUTHERN / PRODUCTION CO: FOX FILM CORPORATION / PRINT SOURCE: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MoMA), NEW YORK
‘Shot at the new Fox studio on West Fifty-Fifth Street (and with extraordinary use of New York locations), this pre-noir dramatic anthology features the same group of actors in three separate stories which reveal the duplicity and corruption behind the public face of the world's greatest city.’ Richard Koszarski
Manhandled 1924 All ages
Sunday 14 June 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, SILENT (LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT), 75 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: ALLAN DWAN / SCRIPT: FRANK W TUTTLE / BASED ON A SHORT STORY BY SIDNEY R KENT AND ARTHUR STRINGER / CINEMATOGRAPHER: HAL ROSSON / EDITOR: JULIAN JOHNSON / CAST: GLORIA SWANSON, TOM MOORE, LILYAN TASHMAN / PRODUCTION CO: FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY CORPORATION / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: NATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO LENDING SERVICE / SCREENING FORMAT: 16MM
‘The best remembered of Gloria Swanson’s New York films. A clever Cinderella story about a department store sales clerk who is swept up in New York high society.’ Richard Koszarski
Love 'em and Leave 'em 1926 All ages
Sunday 21 June 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, SILENT (LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT), 80 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: FRANK TUTTLE / SCRIPT: TOWNSEND MARTIN / BASED ON A PLAY BY JOHN WEAVER AND GEORGE ABBOTT / CINEMATOGRAPHER: GEORGE WEBBER / EDITOR: JULIAN JOHNSON / CAST: EVELYN BRENT, LOUISE BROOKS, OSGOOD PERKINS / PRODUCTION CO: FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY CORPORATION / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: NATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO LENDING SERVICE / SCREENING FORMAT: 16MM
‘A striking vision of life in the modern city, skilfully handled by one of the Paramount Astoria Studio's hottest young directors. Evelyn Brent stars as an industrious Manhattan shop girl, but Louise Brooks steals the show as her guileless, amoral sister.’ Richard Koszarski
Speedy 1928 G
Sunday 28 June 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 86 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: TED WILDE / SCRIPT: JOHN GREY, JAY HOWE, LEX NEAL, HOWARD EMMETT ROGERS / CINEMATOGRAPHER: WALTER LUNDIN / EDITOR: CARL HIMM / ART DIRECTOR: L K VEDDER / MUSIC: DON HULETTE / CAST: HAROLD LLOYD, ANN CHRISTY / PRODUCTION CO: THE HAROLD LLOYD CORPORATION / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: NATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO LENDING SERVICE / SCREENING FORMAT: 16MM
‘In Speedy, [Harold] Lloyd plays a baseball obsessed New Yorker so preoccupied with the game that he is unable to hold down a permanent job. Because he drives a taxi for much of the film, Lloyd was able to incorporate far more location footage than can be found in most other silent-era New York productions. The company shot on Wall St, beneath the 59th Street Bridge, at Coney Island, and in front of the Plaza Hotel and Yankee Stadium.’ Richard Koszarski
The Cameraman 1928 G
Sunday 5 July 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, SILENT (LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT), 75 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: EDWARD SEDGWICK / SCRIPT: CLYDE BRUCKMAN, BYRON SCHAYER / CINEMATOGRAPHER: REGGIE LANNING, ELGIN LESSLEY / EDITOR: HUGH WYNN / CAST: BUSTER KEATON, MARCELINE DAY, HAROLD GOODWIN / PRODUCTION CO: METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER (MGM) / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: NATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO LENDING SERVICE / SCREENING FORMAT: 16MM
‘[Buster] Keaton's penultimate feature film as co-director (uncredited) and lead actor has him playing a tintype street photographer who is determined to become a cameraman so that he can win the affections of the girl in the newsreel company's office. He fails and when all seems lost a resourceful monkey comes to his aid. If Sherlock Junior is Keaton's reflection on the nature of cinematic illusion focused on the projected image, The Cameraman is his reflection on the relationship between artifice and realism which focuses on the process of filming.’ National Film and Video Lending Service
‘Unlike Harold Lloyd, Keaton was able to film only a few scenes in New York, faking all the rest back in Hollywood’ Richard Koszarski
Enchantment 1921 All ages
Sunday 12 July 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, SILENT (LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT), 75 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: ROBERT VIGNOLA / SCRIPT: LUTHER REED / BASED ON THE STORY ‘MANHANDLING ETHEL’ BY FRANK RAMSEY ADAMS / CINEMATOGRAPHER: IRA H MORGAN / ART DIRECTOR: JOSEPH URBAN / CAST: MARION DAVIES, FORREST STANLEY / PRODUCTION CO: COSMOPOLITAN PRODUCTIONS / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
‘Although [Marion] Davies is better known today for her costume epics, this updated edition of The Taming of the Shrew is far more typical of the films she made in New York. Joseph Urban's stylish production design may be the first appearance of European modernism in an American feature.’ Richard Koszarski
Zaza 1923 Ages 15+
Sunday 19 July 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, SILENT (LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT), 66 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: ALLAN DWAN / SCRIPT: ALBERT SHELBY LE VINO / BASED ON THE PLAY BY PIERRE BURTON AND CHARLES SIMON / CINEMATOGRAPHER: HAL ROSSON / CAST: GLORIA SWANSON, H.B. WARNER, FERDINAND GOTTSCHALK, LUCILLE LAVERNE / PRODUCTION CO: FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY CORPORATION / PRINT SOURCE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS / RIGHTS: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
‘Silent screen goddess Gloria Swanson plays the titular Zaza, a brazen French music hall queen and former prostitute, who battles another woman (Mary Thurman) for the affections of a wealthy businessman (H B Warner). The first of eleven silent features Swanson made in New York lavishly produced at the Astoria studio.’ Mimi Brody, UCLA Film and Television Archive
The Emperor Jones, 1933 Ages 15+
Sunday 26 July 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 80 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: DUDLEY MURPHY / SCRIPT: DUBOSE HEYWARD / BASED ON THE PLAY BY EUGENE O'NEILL / CINEMATOGRAPHER: ERNEST HALLER / EDITOR: GRANT WHYTOCK / ART DIRECTOR: HERMAN ROSSE / MUSIC: ROSAMOND JOHNSON / CAST: PAUL ROBESON, DUDLEY DIGGES, FRANK WILSON / PRODUCTION CO: JOHN KRIMSKY AND GIFFORD COCHRAN INC / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS / RIGHTS: DOURIS CORP UK
‘This controversial adaptation of [Eugene] O'Neill's play focuses on Brutus Jones, an enterprising railway porter who becomes the brutal ruler of a Caribbean island. The film was one of the first modern independent features, but suffered heavy cuts from the censors within weeks of its release.’ Richard Koszarski, Mimi Brody UCLA Film and Television Archive
Crime Without Passion, 1934 Ages 15+
Sunday 16 Aug 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 72 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTORS: BEN HECHT, CHARLES MACARTHUR / SCRIPT: BEN HECHT, CHARLES MACARTHUR / BASED ON THE STORY ‘CABALLERO OF THE LAW’ BY BEN HECHT / CINEMATOGRAPHER: LEE GARMES / EDITOR: ARTHUR ELLIS / MUSIC: OSCAR LEVANT, FRANK TOURS / CAST: CLAUDE RAINS, WHITNEY BOURNE / PRODUCTION CO: HECHT-MACARTHUR PRODUCTIONS / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: UNIVERSAL PICTURES
‘A fierce New York defence lawyer (Rains) becomes entangled in his own bizarre romantic machinations after he concocts a scheme to dump his current flame, a Mexican nightclub singer, for a society woman. The first, and best, of Hecht and MacArthur's notorious series of Astoria productions, Crime Without Passion features stunning montage sequences by Slavko Vorkapich depicting mythical female "Furies" who attack wrong-doers.’ Mimi Brody, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Humoresque 1920 All ages
Sunday 23 Aug 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, SILENT (LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT), 70 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: FRANK BORZAGE / SCRIPT: WILLIAM LEBARON, FRANCES MARION / BASED ON A STORY BY FANNIE HURST / CINEMATOGRAPHER: GILBERT WARRENTON / MUSIC: HUGO RIESENFELD / CAST: GASTON GLASS, VERA GORDON / PRODUCTION CO: COSMOPOLITAN PRODUCTIONS / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE
‘In [Frank] Borzage's first great family melodrama, everyone suffers when success on the concert stage catapults an immigrant violinist into the alien world of Park Avenue.’ Richard Koszarski
His Nibs 1920—21 All ages
Sunday 30 Aug 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, SILENT (LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT), 59 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: GREGORY LA CAVA [AL CHRISTIE] / SCRIPT: ARTHUR HOERL / CINEMATOGRAPHERS: A J STOUT, WILLIAM TUERS / EDITOR: ARTHUR HOERL / CAST: CHARLES SALE, COLLEEN MOORE, JOSEPH DOWLING, J.P. LOCKNEY / PRODUCTION CO: EXCEPTIONAL PICTURES / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE
‘One of Gregory La Cava's first directorial jobs after moving from animation, His Nibs was a major discovery at the 2007 Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Vaudeville star "Chic" Sale plays multiple roles in this film within a film about a movie screening in a small town.’ Mimi Brody, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Applause 1929 PG
Sunday 6 Sept 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 80 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: ROUBEN MAMOULIAN / SCRIPT: GARRETT FORD / FROM THE NOVEL BY BETH BROWN / CINEMATOGRAPHER: GEORGE J FOLSEY / EDITOR: JOHN BASSLER / CAST: HELEN MORGAN, JOAN PEERS / PRODUCTION CO: PARAMOUNT PICTURES / PRINT SOURCE: UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE / PRESERVED BY THE UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE, WITH FUNDING FROM UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA / RIGHTS: UNIVERSAL PICTURES
‘Heralded today as a classic among early talkies, Applause is a showcase for the talents of torch singer Helen Morgan, who plays fading burlesque star Kitty Darling. Director Rouben Mamoulian energizes this backstage melodrama with his gritty representation of the bright, noisy realities of burlesque and an innovative use of the nascent sound-recording technology at Paramount's Astoria studio.’ Mimi Brody, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Glorifying the American Girl 1929 Ages 15+
Sunday 13 Sept 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, COLOUR, MONO, 96 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTORS: MILLARD WEBB, JOHN W HARKRIDER / ORIGINAL STORY BY JP MC EVOY AND MILLARD WEBB / CINEMATOGRAPHER: GEORGE J FOLSEY / CAST: MARY EATON, EDWARD CRANDALL, EDDIE CANTOR, RUDY VALLEE / PRODUCTION CO: PARAMOUNT PICTURES / PRINT SOURCE: UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE / PRESERVED BY THE UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE WITH FUNDING FROM THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE/NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PRESERVATION PROGRAM / RIGHTS: UNIVERSAL PICTURES
‘Legendary Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld agreed to lend his name as "supervisor" of this Paramount musical about an ambitious showgirl (Mary Eaton) who sacrifices happiness in pursuit of her dreams of becoming a Follies star. The production numbers, with their scantily clad showgirls … were shot in two-colour Technicolor.’ Mimi Brody, UCLA Film and Television Archive
The Smiling Lieutenant 1931 All ages
Sunday 20 Sept 11.00am / Cinema A
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 88 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: ERNST LUBITSCH / SCRIPT: ERNST VAJDA, SAMSON RAPHAELSON / BASED ON THE NOVEL BY HANS MÜLLER / CINEMATOGRAPHER: GEORGE J FOLSEY / EDITOR: MERRILL G WHITE / ART DIRECTOR: HANS DREIER / CAST: MAURICE CHEVALIER, MIRIAM HOPKINS, CLAUDETTE COLBERT / PRODUCTION CO: PARAMOUNT PICTURES / PRINT SOURCE: UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE / PRESERVED BY THE UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE WITH FUNDING FROM THE STANFORD THEATRE FOUNDATION / RIGHTS: UNIVERSAL PICTURES
‘In [Ernst] Lubitsch's third sound film (and third musical in a row), Maurice Chevalier plays the cheerful but bemused hero, an Austrian officer who vies for the affections of two women. An Oscar nominee for Best Picture, this Viennese romantic triangle was the most successful example of Paramount's effort to create a "Hollywood on the Hudson" in Astoria.’ Mimi Brody, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Early Animation and Experimental film in New York
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Resource lounge
In conjunction with ‘American Impressionism and Realism from The Met’, a selection of experimental films and animations from the period of the exhibition are presented in the gallery spaces of the Queensland Art Gallery.
Celebrating the experimental film works created in New York in the 1920s are short films Manhatta 1920-21 by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, and Skyscaper Symphony 1929 by Robert Florey. Both films abstract from the rapid and restless metamorphosis of New York’s urban landscape.
Also showcased are the musical talents of Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club orchestra in Black and Tan 1929. Set in the famed Cotton Club in Harlem New York, writer director Dudley Murphy reflects the multifaceted beauty of the improvised score with an exploration of the cinematic form. The film features actress Fredi Washington who starred in The Emperor Jones 1993 also directed by Dudley Murphy, and included in the ‘Hollywood on the Hudson’ program.
Manhatta 1920–21 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Resource lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 2008 Digital Restoration: 2K DPX 10bitLog down-converted to standard definition DVD PAL, 4:3, Colour tint, Silent, 11:23 minutes Directors/Cinematographers/Editors: Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand / Source: Special Contents of This Edition © 2008 The Museum of Modern Art / Anthology Film Archives.
Manhatta, also known as New York the Magnificent, is a short silent film showing the daily life of New York City. Described by film historian Jan-Christopher Horak as ‘the first avant-garde film produced in the United States’, it consists of 65 shots interspersed with intertitles quoting
poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
Digital restoration supervised and produced by Bruce Posner at Lowry Digital Images for Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, The Library of Congress, The Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, and Nederlands Filmmuseum. Music composed and arranged by Donald Sosin. Conducted by Peter Breiner. Performed by Slovak Sinfonietta. Edited and mixed at Chace Audio. Additional support by Aperture Foundation, Filmmakers Showcase, The Lane Collection, Lobster Films Paris, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Paul Strand Trust for the Benefit of Virginia Stevens, Turner Classic Movies, and Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893–1941.
Skyscraper Symphony 1929 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Resource lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, Black and White, Silent, 11 minutes Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Robert Florey / New music composed and performed by Donald Sosin Source: Special Contents of This Edition © 2005 Anthology Film Archives.
Depicting the modernity of metropolitan life in New York, Skyscraper Symphony embodies the ‘city symphony’ film genre. A combination of documentary, narrative and experimental filmmaking, it offers an impressionistic exploration of the geometric precision of modernisation. Captured against the skyline, soaring skyscrapers symbolise a metamorphosis of the urban landscape and the dynamics of urban life. A montage of dramatic camera angles and abstract compositions Skyscraper Symphony provides a glimpse of the city’s restless growth and energy at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Skyscraper Symphony is presented courtesy of the collaborative film restoration project, Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893–1941, sponsored by Anthology Film Archives, New York, and Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, and underwritten by Cineric, Inc., New York.
www.unseen-cinema.com
Black and Tan 1929 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Resource lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3,Black and White, Mono, 19 minutes Director: Dudley Murphy/Cinematographer: Dal Clawson/ Editor: Russell G Sheilds/Production company: RCA Source: Courtesy DOURIS UK Limited
Featuring the first screen appearance of composer and pianist Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra, Black and Tan reflects the cultural phenomena of 1920s Hot Jazz. Showcasing extraordinary improvisational skills, the film includes three musical numbers ‘The Duke Steps Out’, ‘Black Beauty’, and ‘Black and Tan Fantasy’. The story is framed around key performances by Duke Ellington and Fredi Washington, who both play fictionalised versions of themselves. Set in the famed Cotton Club in Harlem, New York, Ellington and the Orchestra are offered a contract on the condition that Washington dances again. Retiring from the business because of her weak heart, Washington agrees to return for the sake of the music with fatal consequences. While the film reproduces some stereotypes about African-Americans, it is the musical genius of these icons of entertainment which takes centre stage and imbues this film with emotional depth and power.
The Met for Kids, animation lounge
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Resource lounge
In the 1920s and 1930s, New York City was a prosperous and vibrant city. It was home to a busy film industry which attracted filmmakers and movie stars from Hollywood and around the globe. An afternoon at the cinema became a popular and inexpensive form of entertainment for New Yorkers with the opening of the New York City’s Regent Theatre 1913. Until the late 1920s, New York was also the centre of the American animation industry. Newspaper distributors were looking at ways to incorporate their daily comic strips into their weekly cinema newsreels. Through exposure in cinemas, animated characters such as Felix the Cat, Betty Boop and Popeye became stars of the era.
Gertie the Dinosaur 1914
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 17:35 minutes, United States / Director: Winsor McCay / Animator: Winsor McCay / Courtesy: Milestone Film and Video
Bug Vaudeville 1921
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 11:38 minutes, United States / Director: Winsor McCay / Animator: Winsor McCay / Courtesy: Milestone Film and Video
The Pet 1921 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 10:54 minutes, United States / Director: Winsor McCay / Animator: Winsor McCay / Courtesy: Milestone Film and Video
The self-described ‘originator and inventor of animated drawing’ Winsor McCay pioneered the development of early animation. Meticulously created, each animation required thousands of hand-drawn images, known as frames, to complete the smooth movement of the characters. Best known for his animation Gertie the Dinosaur 1914 McCay began his career creating daily comic strips such as Little Nemo in Slumberland 1905–14 for New York newspapers.
Felix in the Swim 1922 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 6:27 minutes, United States / Director: Pat Sullivan / Animator: Otto Messmer / Courtesy of Don Oriolo and Felix the Cat Creations, Inc. and Haven Licensing. All rights reserved ™ & © 2009 FTCC, Inc
Felix Revolts 1923 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 8:19 minutes, United States / Director: Pat Sullivan / Animator: Otto Messmer / Courtesy of Don Oriolo and Felix the Cat Creations, Inc. and Haven Licensing. All rights reserved ™ & © 2009 FTCC, Inc
Felix in Fairyland 1923 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 9:06 minutes, United States / Director: Pat Sullivan / Animator: Otto Messmer / Courtesy of Don Oriolo and Felix the Cat Creations, Inc. and Haven Licensing. All rights reserved ™ & © 2009 FTCC, Inc
Felix the Cat was an adventurous cartoon character created during the silent film era by Australian Pat Sullivan. Felix the Cat was constantly getting in and out of scrapes with the help of those he befriended along the way.
Minnie the Moocher 1932 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 7:45 minutes, United States / Director: Dave Fleischer / Animators: Willard Bowsky, Ralph Somerville / Music: Cab Calloway and His Orchestra / Courtesy: A2Zcds.com
Betty Boop and the Little King 1936 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 6:04 minutes, United States / Director: Dave Fleischer / Animators: Myron Waldman, William Hicks Lokey / Courtesy: A2Zcds.com
Happy You and Merry Me 1936 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 6:33 minutes, United States / Director: Dave Fleischer / Animators: Willard Bowsky, George Germanetti / Courtesy: A2Zcds.com
A carefree girl of the Jazz Age, Betty Boop is often accompanied on her adventures by her sweetheart Bimbo and her puppy called Pudgy. With her squeaky Brooklyn voice and boop-boop-a-doop singing style, Betty Boop became known as the ‘The Queen of the Animated Screen’.
Little Swee’Pea 1936 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 7:07 minutes, United States / Director: Dave Fleischer / Animators: Seymour Kneitel, William Henning / Courtesy: Mackinac Media
The Paneless Window Washer 1937 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 6:10 minutes, United States / Director: Dave Fleischer / Animators: Willard Bowsky, Orestes Calpini / Courtesy: Mackinac Media
A Date to Skate 1938 All Ages
Sun 31 May until 20 Sept / Animation lounge
35mm transferred to DVD, 4:3, black and white, 7:05 minutes, United States / Director: Dave Fleischer / Animators: Willard Bowsky, Orestes Calpini / Courtesy: Mackinac Media
A good-natured sailor, Popeye loves his sweetheart Olive Oyl but repeatedly has to fight the tough Bluto for her affections. Whenever Popeye is in trouble he eats spinach that gives him superhuman strength to defeat the villains. His theme song tells us ‘He’s strong to the finish ’cause he still eats his spinach, he’s Popeye the Sailor Man’.
