![]() To Your Health (1956, Dir: Phillip Stapp) - Made for the U.N.'s World Health Organization at the British Halas/Batchelor studio, this film attempts to answer the question, "What is alcohol, anyway?" Striking, beautiful Technicolor animation is used to depict the effects and problems of drunkenness. It was distributed to American schools by educational film giant Encyclopedia Brittanica Films. ![]() It tells the story of a family of bears who toil in the forest, except for little Korachan, who only wants to play, and manages to be both cute and campy. Korochan the Little Bear (1959) - The unique drawing style marks this as an early sample of Japanese animation. ![]() ![]() If that weren't enough to fill a seven-minute cartoon, Buddy also encounters a swishy caveman and a cameo by the Three Stooges! It's essentially a short cartoon version of The Lost World, the 1925 silent feature adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's fantastic novel, about the discovery of a hidden jungle where dinosaurs still walk the earth. Animation historians generally consider the Buddy films to be a disappointment, but this entry certainly had a wild premise. Admission is $13.50, $8.00 BMFI members, $11.00 seniors/students, and $9.00 children.īuddy's Lost World (1935) - The Buddy character first appeared in 1933, as a replacement for the popular Bosko, the first character to "star" in Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes series. There will be one complete program, starting at 7:30 pm. What these films, which were made from the 1920s through the 1950s, all share is a fearless aesthetic that is unafraid of the absurd an often shocking sense of humor that is the polar opposite of today's sanitized, cross-marketed Pixar sensations.Īs always, all films will be presented using real 16mm film projected on a giant screen. A few might be perceived as offensive by today's standards. Most, but not all of what we'll include in Weird Cartoons was made for general audiences by major studios some were made by independent animators, some were sponsored films with subtle advertising messages, and a couple of cartoons date back to the era of silent films. ![]() This show will gather highlights from these, and also add a few that we've never shown before (however, there will be no repetition from the Weird Cartoons screening that we presented in 2021). We've shown several unique "volumes" of this weird program, beginning nineteen years ago. It will be a revisiting of one of our favorite themes, called Weird Cartoons, and highlighting unusual and bizarre animation. The Secret Cinema will return to the Bryn Mawr Film Institute on Wednesday, November 2. Weird Cartoons at the Bryn Mawr Film InstituteĪdmission: $13.50, $8.00 BMFI members, $11.00 seniors/students, $9.00 children. Here are some recent SECRET CINEMA events. ![]()
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