The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (56)

ACME hopes that all of their friends and family are continuing to enjoy happy and healthy Lunar New Year celebration (Pace yourself! You have seven more days to go.)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Road Runner/ Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1949 Chuck Jones directed, Fast & Furryous:



In this cartoon, both Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner look slightly different from the later cartoons to follow: in this one both characters look shorter and scruffier. In later cartoons, both characters would be redesigned to be taller and thinner to accentuate their speed.


In celebration of the Lunar New Year, today's episode of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour is sponsored by StarHub:



Remember, StarHub, you could always change the locks

Another facet of the Lunar New Year celebration, is about traditions. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to start a tradition with your family by watching one of the crowning achievement of the Second Golden Era of Chinese Cinema, the animation classic, Da Nao Tian Gong (sometimes known in English as Uproar in Heaven) based on the Legend of The Monkey King. Once again, if you can't watch this today, please put it on a list of films you much watch.



The Wan Brothers are credited with establishing the Chinese animation industry and had produced the first ever Chinese feature film, Princess Iron Fan, in 1941. It had originally been intended to animate this story in the early 1940's, but both World War II and the subsequent Civil War between the Communist and Nationalist forces delayed this project. It was launched shortly after Wan Laiming took over management of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1954 and brought his three brothers onto the project in 1963. Not only did the film receive praise within China, but it received kudos from the international film community as well. Unfortunately, it was also the last great animated feature to come from China for many years as it, and the Shanghai Animation Studio, fell victim to the Cultural Revolution the year after it was released.



Demand Euphoria!