Another page from the ACME Catalog -
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Claude Cat Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1952 Chuck Jones directed, Mouse Warming:
This cartoon occasionally has had the scene cut of Alice Mouse's father shoots Claude in the face
On Thanksgiving Day 41 years ago, November 26, 1976, The Band gave their final concert with their original lineup, a massive swan song that the group turned into an all-star spectacle. Martin Scorsese was neck-deep in finishing New York, New York, his ill-fated attempt in remaking the classic Hollywood musical. Behind his producers backs, Scorsese accepted The Band's request to film the event. Along the way, Scorsese captured the whole thing and later released it as a movie. Several sources site that today, November 4, 1977, Martin Scoresese arranged to have the finished film shown in New York City. ACME would like to celebrate the film and commemorate the anniversary of it's showing by asking you in joining us in watching The Last Waltz today. Remember to 'Play it really loud!'
Before the concert filming, audience members at the Berkley Orchestra venue were served Thanksgiving dinner and treated to dancing - - appropriately set to music suitable for a waltz. Robbie Robertson recalled in his memoir Testimony that one of the shows organizers said it took two hundred turkeys to feed the crowd of at least a thousand patrons.
Demand Euphoria!
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