Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1959 China Jones , (co-starring Porky Pig) and directed by Robert McKimson.
China Jones is a spoof of the 1952-55 TV series, China Smith, starring Dan Duryea. This short is one of many that has not aired on American television since the 1990s due to outdated racial stereotyping of East Asians that modern audiences would find offensive.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour staff came across a fun series of videos trying to explain a large number of subject in under 10 minutes or so. The episode we're going to watch today - uncovering common misconceptions -
So now you know.
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 1966 Czechoslovak New Wave comedy, Closely Watched Trains, (AKA Ostre sledované vlaky), directed by Jirí Menzel, and starring Václav Neckár. At the time, the film received very good reviews and was one of the best known Czech films, going on to win the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 1968. We don't want to tell you too much about the film other than to say it isone of those weird and wonderful films that you just know you’re not going to get out of your head for weeks to come. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch Closely Watched Trains.
As of 2022 the train station still stands, and in 2017 a museum was opened there to commemorate this film. It also still used as an active passenger train station.
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