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Thaumatrope

A scientific toy devised in the 19th century. It consisted of a disc with a different picture on each of its two sides: when the disc was rotated rapidly about a diameter, these pictures appeared to combine into one image.



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Keep telling yourself, "It's just a dream."

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (166)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1949 Rabbit Hood, directed by Chuck Jones.



The line, "Bugs Bunny: Arise, Duke of Brittingham!" is an in-joke regarding the bar Brittingham was across the street from the Warner Brothers cartoon studio. Bugs asks the Sheriff of Nottingham if he is a veteran refers to the fact that many WW2 veterans had trouble obtaining housing loans.


Before the start of our feature presentation ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you to watch the important PSA from Charo



Remember, use ACME Eagle Hand Soap while counting your 'cuchi-cuchis'.


We hope you are doing well with your self quarantines - the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been liberally washing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and santizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via smoke signals and addis lamps. We have been re-reading an excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. This time what jumped out at us was completely unknown silent film (unless you are a film student) from 1929. Man With A Movie Camera (Chelovek s kinoapparatom), a freewheeling Russian documentary depicting the city of Moscow from sunrise to sunset (although it took director Dziga Vertof (Denis Kaufman) and the editor, Yelizaveta Svilova (his wife) four years to film this day, and he worked in three cities: Moscow, Kiev and Odessa.) This is an important film that more people should know about. So why not sit back and relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some popcorn,) and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this superb film, Man With A Movie Camera. -




A revelation in its day, the film was noted for introducing all sorts of camera techniques to audiences. Some of these include double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, backward footage, and stop motion animation.



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We here at ACME, salute you!

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Hey Kids, Let's Whip COVID-19 Now

Wash Your Hands

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What was the need?

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Sometimes, you can't even trust Superman

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Tappen

The plug by which the rectum of a bear is closed during hibernation. (An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.)



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With just a few more ingredients than hand sanitizer

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (165)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1949 Which is Witch, directed by Friz Freleng. (While not part of the infamous Censored 11, this cartoon is rarely, if ever shown on TV due to it's negative stereotypes.)



When Dr. Spots appears in the crocodile-skin outfit and Bugs says Spots has the "New Look", Bugs is referring to the late 40's fashion initiated by designer Christian Dior. Bugs even contorts his face to resemble Dior's then-famous face.


Before the start of our feature presentation ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you to watch the important PSA - Germs and You -



Remember, use ACME Eagle Hand Soap frequently or or else a giant talking bar of soap will appear in your bedroom one night and no one will ever hear from you again.


Fear not, the inmates in the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been liberally washing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and santizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via messenger pigeons and secret couriers. We have been re-reading an excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. This time what jumped out at us was an almost completely forgotten silent film from 1928. The Docks of New York was one of the last films of the silent era. Previewed by the New York City press during the same week that saw the fanfare opening of Al Jolson’s The Singing Fool, the follow up film to The Jazz Singer. We could think of nothing better than watching catching this classic pre-Marlene Dietrich Josef von Sternberg film. So why not sit back and relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some popcorn,) and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this superb film, Docks of New York. -



'Sugar' Steve tries to light Mae's cigarette from the same match he used to light Bill's and his own cigarettes while she is mending Bill's shirt. Mae blows out the match and says, "What are you trying to do, bring me more bad luck?" He must light a new match for her cigarette. At the time, "three on a match" was considered bad luck. Soldiers during the Crimea War believed that if three soldiers lit their cigarettes from the same match, one of the three would be killed, or alternately the third soldier to use the match would be shot. The superstition persisted with soldiers through World War II.



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The hunt for an open bar

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Losing My Religion

Just to remind you, Our Throwback Thursday features a favorite song, something about the song and a cover version of the song. R.E.M. was the go to alternate rock band of the 80s - 90s. I can remember buying each of their albums on cassettes from Columbia House (kids, I have no idea how to explain Columbia House to you.) At the time of it's release, Losing My Religion, was my favorite song from my favorite album, Out of Time, (looking over their entire career now, with hindsight, I would have to choose either E-Bow the Letter or Electrolite from New Adventures in Hi-Fi as my favorite R.E.M. song.) But I'm going with Losing My Religion for this exercise. The song has a fond memory in my heart. I can remember seeing their MTV Unplugged show, nearly 29 years ago. It was one of the best taped performances I have ever seen.



R.E.M. was surprised when their record label chose Losing My Religion as the first single from their seventh album, Out Of Time. Running 4:28 with no chorus and a mandolin for a lead instrument, it didn't seem like hit material, but it ended up being the biggest hit of their career. Their next single, Shiny Happy People, was much more straightforward. This won the Grammy in 1991 for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.



This song has its origins in guitarist Peter Buck's efforts to try learn to play the mandolin. When he played back recordings of his first attempts, he heard the riff and thought it might make a good basis for a song. Explaining how the song came together musically, Buck told Guitar School in 1991: "I started it on mandolin and came up with the riff and chorus. The verses are the kinds of things R.E.M. uses a lot, going from one minor to another, kind of like those 'Driver 8' chords. You can't really say anything bad about E minor, A minor, D, and G - I mean, they're just good chords."



The cover version (of sorts) I want to highlight of Losing My Religion is done by jazz singer Jacqui Naylor. Her interpretation is almost a samba/ bossa nova version, but it works very well.



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Too soon

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Word on the street

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Suedehead

A youth like a skinhead but with slightly longer hair and smarter clothes.



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Ripped from today's headlines

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (164)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1949 Frigid Hare (featuring the Playboy Penguin,) directed by Chuck Jones.



This cartoon has been largely barred from TV showings because of complaints about its treatment of Inuit peoples, both in the (perceived) stereotypical way the hunter is drawn and when Bugs insults him by calling him a "big baboon" and an "Eskimo pie-head".


March 14, 1885 -
Fear not, the inmates in the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been liberally washing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and sanitized themselves for your protection. It's the 135 anniversary of the first performance of Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Giberts comic opera, The Mikado. The opera is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history. We could think of nothing better than watching the 1999 Mike Leigh film exploring the creation of the Victorian classic. (Mike Leigh was so frustrated with the continued relegation of his movies to art house cinemas instead of wide release that he joked that he would have cast Arnold Schwarzenegger as both Gilbert and Sullivan if his budget had permitted it.) So why not sit back and relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some popcorn,) and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this superb film, Topsy Turvy. -



Much of the six-month-long rehearsal process consisted of the cast discussing and doing detailed research on Victorian social and personal habits, speaking patterns, news events, and the mechanics of theatrical production during that era. Mike Leigh noticed during editing that one of the violinists in the foreground of a key scene was wearing a modern-day watch, which no one had caught during filming. It was digitally erased, at considerable expense.



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We must acquire the sangfroid of the undead

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Kids, wash you hands

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The metal nozzle was always especially cold

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Not something you see every day

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Succuss

to shake something vigorously, especially a homeopathic remedy.



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Perhaps this book can help you today

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The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (163)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1949 The Windblown Hare, directed by Robert McKimson.



The three little pigs from this cartoon would reappear in The Turn-Tale Wolf, once again as the aggressors, this time picking on another Big Bad Wolf.


March 7, 1988 -
The world has alway been a little less fabulous without Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead) in it. The folks at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want to commemorate the life of Divine by asking you to watch with us the denizens of Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions. What other movie has the lead character ravaged by a fifteen-foot lobster. So we would like you to relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some offal meats,) and a beverage (your choice) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching Multiple Maniacs.



Shot in various locations without permits. The opening scenes at the Cavalcade of Perversion were filmed in front of the home of John Waters' parents. Divine's apartment in this film was John Waters' own apartment in Baltimore. Note the film posters on the walls.



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Those days have gone

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Once In A Lifetime

Just to remind you, Our Throwback Thursday features a favorite song, something about the song and a cover version of the song. Everybody is talking about Once In A Lifetime, the lead single from Talking Heads' fourth studio album, Remain in Light. While the video for the song was in heavy rotation when MTV first launched, very few radio stations played the song. MTV didn't have much clout back then, and the song never charted in the US.



Some critics have suggested that Once In A Lifetime is a kind of prescient jab at the excesses of the 1980s. David Byrne says they're wrong; that the lyric is pretty much about what it says it's about. In an interview with NPR, Byrne said: "We're largely unconscious. You know, we operate half awake or on autopilot and end up, whatever, with a house and family and job and everything else, and we haven't really stopped to ask ourselves, 'How did I get here?'"



David Byrne shed some light on his lyrical inspiration when he told Time Out: "Most of the words in 'Once in a Lifetime' come from evangelists I recorded off the radio while taking notes and picking up phrases I thought were interesting directions. Maybe I'm fascinated with the middle class because it seems so different from my life, so distant from what I do. I can't imagine living like that."



The 68 year old performer was in top form this past Saturday night when he performed his 40 year old tune on SNL. Same as it ever way, indeed.



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The masterbating mascot may have turned off some

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Sometimes you mess with the wrong flock

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Sternutator

Something that causes sneezing.



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A kid's first cookbook

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