Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1946 The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, (with a cameo appearance of Pork Pig,) directed by Bob Clampett and Michael Sasanoff.
In 1994, it was voted #16 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour thought it would be fun to taunt me with this excellent supercut from the Royal Ocean Film Society of food being cooked and consumed in animated shorts, (thanks guys!) -
Even though I can't fully eat yet, I enjoyed it thoroughly.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1962 avant-garde independent cutout animation film, Heaven and Earth Magic, directed by Harry Everett Smith., Smith cut-out animation style can be seen as a precursor to the work of Terry Gilliam. The director, Harry Everett Smith – often known as simply Harry Smith – was an interesting character in the history of American pop culture, probably better remembered for compiling the three-disc Anthology of American Folk Music released on Folkways in 1952, an influential album that’s been widely credited for inspiring the revival of interest in American folk music in the 50s and 60s – Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead were particular fans of the record. The film might just be too out there for some viewer, but with this you should give it a try. As always, The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching Heaven and Earth Magic. So push away from the table, get comfortable and enjoy the film.
If you look for it, there seems to be a plot – it has something to do (possibly…) with a young woman who loses a valuable watermelon and goes on a decidedly odd series of misadventures to get it back, meeting a skeleton horse, going to the dentist and visiting Heaven along the way. It culminates with her being eaten by the German-born philologist and Orientalist Max Müller on the day Edward the Seventh dedicated the Great Sewer of London…
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