Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1965 Well Worn Daffy, (co-starring Speedy Gonzales,) and directed by Robert McKimson.
The comment about walking a mile to punch a camel in the nose was a wink to a popular ad campaign for Camel cigarettes. Many years later, Camel would introduce an animated mascot named Joe Camel.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour saw that our favorite 7 foot, singing clown, Puddles had a new video after a bit of a dry spell
The Billie Eilish song, What Was I Made For, suits his voice very well.
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 classic 1968 documentary, In the Year of the Pig, directed by Emile de Antonio , about the US involvement in the Vietnam War. The film was greeted with hostility by many audiences, with bomb threats and vandalism directed at theaters that showed it. The film though was ultimately nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 1990, film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum characterized the film as "the first and best of the major documentaries about Vietnam". So push away from the table, get comfortable and join us in watching In the Year of the Pig.
The poster for the documentary was used as the cover of the Smiths album Meat Is Murder with the slogan on the helmet changed to the album's title.
Demand Euphoria!
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