Dr. Caligari's cabinet is now so crammed that he had to stow stuff in the Cupboard. Time may wound all heels but once in a while you need a cup of tea.
The holiday season is once again upon us and it's the third night of Hanukkah. Last year, your bathroom linens remain relatively clean but your heart and home are empty of visiting love one. This year, we're sure your home is bursting with the various mishpocha, soiling your hand towels.
Remember that ACME Eagle Hand Soap comes in a powdered form, excellent for all your laundry needs
Today is also the tenth Annual Giving Tuesday. Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and standing in stark contrast of the shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday is a movement to create an international day of giving as a response to commercialization and consumerism.
#GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving.
The holiday season is once again upon us and with the month nearly being over, we here at Acme are proud to bring you the Fourteenth Annual Holiday Video Festival.
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah -
You add the candles from right to left but light them left to right.
So, let the serious eating commence.
Original Hanukkah Song Adam Sandler -
The Hanukkah Sessions: Night One Kurstin x Grohl -
Hanukkah Medley Julia Lester -
A Musical Channukah Quiz Gladys Gewirtz -
Our Menorah Again Avi Frier -
This Hannukah Club Sofa -
Please pace yourself - Eight days is a long time. And kids, know when a simple game becomes an addiction - please no actual gambling while playing with your dreidels.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1960 Person To Bunny, (featuring Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck,) directed by Friz Freleng.
Due to the long production time for theatrical cartoons, the cartoon's pop culture reference had become out of date in 1960. In real life, Edward R. Murrow had left Person to Person and was replaced by Charles Collingwood. A similar "outdated reference" problem previously occurred with "Wild Wild World" earlier that year. At the time that cartoon was released in theaters, Wide Wide World got cancelled. This was the last cartoon for which Arthur Q. Bryan would supply the voice of Elmer Fudd. Bryan had passed away a few months before the release of the cartoon.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you to join us in listening to just about every song you may have heard on a radio station this weekend -
You will be forgiven if you need a little lie down after listening to that - it was brilliant but exhausting
ACME wants you to join them in celebrating the holidays with your friends at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour - the official soap of our nation's bald eagles. Remember if your bald eagle's talons are filthy, do we have a soap for you! The holiday season is nearly upon us again, Hanukkah starting tomorrow. Our home has been bursting with the various mishpocha, soiling our hand towels. Thank goodness for our lifetime supply of ACME Eagle Hand Soap and plenty of paper towels. Since the younger Caligaris and their horde of hard seltzer swilling cohorts are in our home, putting up our holiday decorations, why not join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this 2004Barenaked Ladies holiday special to put in that holiday mood. Remember, we will never complain that the brisket is too dry!
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1960 Horse Hare, (featuring Yosemite Sam,) directed by Friz Freleng.
Due to pressure from Warner Bros., this cartoon has been pulled from rotation by several networks. This is in addition to the "Censored 11" that have been withheld from distribution since 1968. The reason given was the short's potentially offensive depiction of Native Americans.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap who like you to join us in listening to a middle aged man relive his youthful endeavors (successfully, I might add.) -
The phenomenal Johnny Marr performed a live version of The Smiths' iconic song How Soon Is Now at Marr’s studio in Manchester, England.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's choice is Robert Aldrich's 1955 classic film noir, Kiss Me Deadly, starring Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Wesley Addy, and Cloris Leachman (in her feature film debut). The film was a failure when originally released and was denounced by the influential Kefauver Commission for its violence. The picture is now regarded by film historians as one of the best and most significant examples of film noir, and is often cited by modern filmmakers as a major influence on their careers. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this exciting movie, Kiss Me Deadly. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Although Victor Saville is credited as Executive Producer and Director Robert Aldrich is credited only as Producer, in reality, Aldrich had it written into his contract that he had complete control over the picture, and it would be made the way he wanted it, specifically stipulating that his decisions could not be overruled by any studio representative.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon, the 1959 People Are Bunny, (featuring Daffy Duck,) directed by Robert McKimson.
This is the second time in which Bugs disguises himself as an usher to send someone into a show that involved Indians and then trick his enemy into a hunter/sportsman related show. The first was Wideo Wabbit where Bugs sends Elmer Fudd into a TV studio playing You Were There, which was reenacting Custer's Last Stand and then trick him into his own show The Sportsman's Hour.
Before the start of our feature presentation, ACME Eagle Hand Soap who like you to join us in watching SpongeBob sing Lil Nas X'sOld Town Road -
This was very clever but please don't have him sing Montero, I'm not sure we could take it.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's choice is Otto Preminger's 1955 film noir, The Man with the Golden Arm, starring Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, and Eleanor Parker. Otto Preminger defied Production Code guidelines when adapting Nelson Algren’s powerful novel about drug addiction, a taboo topic in mid-century America. Although the drug to which Sinatra is addicted is never specified in the finished movie (in the novel it was morphine,) most sources assume that it is heroin. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching this absorbing drama, The Man With The Golden Arm. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
Novelist Nelson Algren initially sold the screen rights to John Garfield's company. Although a script was developed, the actor's sudden early death allowed Otto Preminger to acquire the rights. Marlon Brando was offered the role of Frankie Machine, but Frank Sinatra jumped at the opportunity and was signed before Brando could accept.
(Oops, the wrong video had been here for most of the day - sorry about that.)
In today's episode of Monsterpiece Theatre, we see another classic Shakespearian comedy (this time attributed to Wilma Shakespeare) - Much Ado About Nothing.
It seems that Wilma's character, Grover the Waiter, became an enduring staple of Sesame Street for years.
Due to the serious nature and subject matter of our features today, we will dispense with our usual shorts and show our feature presentation. Please join us next week when we will resume with another Looney Tunes cartoon
We've picked two fantastic (yet difficult) short documentaries from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. One of our choices today is relatively unknown; the other world famous - Jean Rouch's1955 Les Maîtres Fous (The Mad Masters) and Alain Resnais' 1955 sobering documentary, Night and Fog.
Les Maîtres Fous (The Mad Masters) is a controversial docufiction examines the Hauku religious cult practices in Ghana and Niger from the 1920s to the 1950s. It is a very tough film to watch, scenes include animal sacrifice and spirit possession and yet you can clearly see the profound effect the film had on artist like, Jean Genet who wrote his play The Blacks in which blacks assume the role of masters, and Peter Brook’s staging of Peter Weiss’s play Marat/Sade was influenced by the theatricality and spontaneous language of Hauka possession. Indeed, the film was so controversial that it was banned first in Niger, and then in British territories including Ghana. The film was considered offensive to colonial authorities because of the Africans' blatant attempts to mimic and mock the "white oppressors". On the other hand, at the time, African students, teachers, and directors found the film confirmed every stereotype held by Westerners about “savages.” With that fair warning, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to encourage you to watch this odd film, Les Maîtres Fous.
(closed captions in English are available)
After a disastrous screening at the Musee De L'Homme where Rouch spoke a live commentary and his mentor Marcel Griaule advised him to destroy the work, the director was put in touch with émigré American director Jules Dassin who found him an editor and suggested the completed film be blown up to 35mm.
Our second feature tonight is the 1955 documentary by Alain Resnais, Night and Fog. It was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, making it one of the first documentaries to openly deal with the Holocaust. The documentary features the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek while describing the lives of prisoners in the camps. Night and Fog was made in collaboration with scriptwriter Jean Cayrol, a survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. The title is taken from the Nacht und Nebel program of abductions and disappearances decreed by Nazi Germany. It goes without saying that the film's subject matter is intense and may be difficult for some to watch. While the film faced difficulties with French censors unhappy with the portrayal of the collaboration of french authorities with the Nazis, Night and Fog was released to critical acclaim in France and worldwide. Again with a warning about the serious nature of this documentary, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to encourage you to watch this historical significant film, Night and Fog.
Jean Cayrol found the project immensely distressing to work on, given the fact that he had been a concentration camp inmate. How he got round it was not to provide text, segment by segment, to Alain Resnais, who would normally have edited the images around it. Instead, Cayrol wrote an initial text based on his recollections of Resnais' first cut. Resnais' assistant Chris Marker then reordered the script to match the sequence of shots and returned the restructured script to Cayrol, who then rewrote the script.
