Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the funniest Daffy Duck/ Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon (with the possible exception of The Scarlet Pumpernickle), the 1950 The Ducksters, directed by Chuck Jones.
The "Miss Shush" Porky is asked to identify by the sound of brushing her teeth is actually, as Daffy tells the audience, "Mamie the 600-Pound Gorilla who appears in Obnoxious Pictures' 'Jungle Jitters'". Both the character and film are fictitious; this is not a reference to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon Jungle Jitters directed by Ub Iwerks nor Warner Brothers' own cartoon Jungle Jitters, directed by Friz Freleng, the latter of which did not feature a gorilla.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching a man with way too much time on his hands, (and a huge electric bill.)
Pawel Zadrozniak connected 512 floppy disk drives, 4 scanners and 16 hard disk drives and created his Floppotron 3.0. Check out his web site to see how he creates the music and check out some other of his musical creations here.
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 1965 Ukranian World Cinema Classic, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Tini zabutykh predkiv), directed by Sergei Parajanov, and starring Ivan Mykolaichuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, and Tatyana Bestayeva. The film has come to be known as the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history, and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema. While the film was a smashing success around the globe, at home, things began to go badly for Parajanov. He had fallen out of favor with the Soviet film bureau and was imprisoned for 5 years in 1973 on trumped up charges. In prison, Parajanov wrote four screenplays and created roughly 800 drawings; the drawings were subsequently exhibited in a museum to overflow crowds. But he was unable to make another film until 1985, and after that made only two more films, and one incomplete film, before his death in 1990 at the age of 66. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching this visually stunning work, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
For decades it has been believed that Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors won the British Academy Award. This was most notably stated in the famous Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz. Recently, however, the disciple of Sergei Parajanov, Martiros Vartanov, obtained on official confirmation from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), which stated that the movie was not a BAFTA award recipient; although in 1965 the film won the Grand Prix at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival and a record number of other awards on the festival circuit.
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