ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour Today (374)

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Bunny

Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1959 People Are Bunny, (starring Bugs Bunny) and 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, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour has had Pink Floyd on their brains quite a bit. Ever since we heard Nick Mason put out the call for animators to create pieces to accompany the songs from their masterful album, Dark Side of the Moon, in celebration of it's 50th anniversary, we eagerly awaited the results. Well Nick started announcing the winners and we have been excited to watch some of the results. Here the piece for Time



We really like it. If you want to see some more of the videos, check out the Pink Floyd youtube website.
 

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 1967 Czeck New Wave comedy, The Firemen's Ball, (AKA Horí, Má Panenko), directed and written by Miloš Forman (among others,), and starring Jan Vostrcil . The Firemen's Ball was the last film Forman made in his native Czechoslovakia before he relocated to the United States. It is also the first film he shot in color. In spite of many claims the film was banned in Czechoslovakia by the communists in power at the time, it was not. It actually sold over 750,000 tickets in the country and was shown on state-controlled television in 1969. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Firemen's Ball.



Milos Forman with screenwriters Jaroslav Papousek and Ivan Passer were in the small town of Vrchabi, trying to concentrate on a screenplay after their success with Loves of a Blonde. One evening, on a lark, they went to a real firemen's ball in the town. What they saw there was so amazing to them, they abandoned the script they were working on and began writing this film.



Demand Euphoria!