Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the iconic 1954 Design For Leaving,, (co-starring Elmer Fudd, ) and directed by Robert McKimson.
Daffy reprises a salesman role that he previously played in Daffy Dilly, The Stupor Salesman and Fool Coverage.
Before the start of our feature presentation, you know how we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour love a good supercut. We saw this over on Laughing Squid's site and had to STOP to watch it.
It's from the site Todd in the Shadows.
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 documentary The Tokyo Olympiad, directed by Kon Ichikawa. The film is held in very high critical regard - it is considered one of the best sports documentary and is seen, alongside Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, as one of the best films about the Olympics. Ichikawa's film was considered a cinematographic milestone in documentary filmmaking. However, Tokyo Olympiad keeps its focus far more on the atmosphere of the games and the human side of the athletes rather than concentrating on winning and the results. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and watch The Tokyo Olympiad.
The Olympic Organizing Board was looking for a commercial representation of the Olympics, including glorifying winners and the Japanese contestants, and was disappointed with the film, which humanized the games instead. The uncut version was subsequently never publicly screened.
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