Dr. Caligari's cabinet is now so crammed that he had to stow stuff in the Cupboard. Time may wound all heels but once in a while you need a cup of tea.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
Thaumatrope
A scientific toy devised in the 19th century. It consisted of a disc with a different picture on each of its two sides: when the disc was rotated rapidly about a diameter, these pictures appeared to combine into one image.
Demand Euphoria!
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Saturday, March 28, 2020
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (166)
Thank you for joining us today.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1949 Rabbit Hood, directed by Chuck Jones.
The line, "Bugs Bunny: Arise, Duke of Brittingham!" is an in-joke regarding the bar Brittingham was across the street from the Warner Brothers cartoon studio. Bugs asks the Sheriff of Nottingham if he is a veteran refers to the fact that many WW2 veterans had trouble obtaining housing loans.
Before the start of our feature presentation ACME Eagle Hand Soap would like you to watch the important PSA from Charo
Remember, use ACME Eagle Hand Soap while counting your 'cuchi-cuchis'.
We hope you are doing well with your self quarantines - the programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour have been liberally washing themselves with ACME Eagle Hand Soap - If your eagle's hands are dirty, we'll wash them clean! and santizing themselves for your protection. We are also engaged in social distancing - we are communicating with each other via smoke signals and addis lamps. We have been re-reading an excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. This time what jumped out at us was completely unknown silent film (unless you are a film student) from 1929. Man With A Movie Camera (Chelovek s kinoapparatom), a freewheeling Russian documentary depicting the city of Moscow from sunrise to sunset (although it took director Dziga Vertof (Denis Kaufman) and the editor, Yelizaveta Svilova (his wife) four years to film this day, and he worked in three cities: Moscow, Kiev and Odessa.) This is an important film that more people should know about. So why not sit back and relax (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack (perhaps, some popcorn,) and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this superb film, Man With A Movie Camera. -
A revelation in its day, the film was noted for introducing all sorts of camera techniques to audiences. Some of these include double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, backward footage, and stop motion animation.
Demand Euphoria!
Friday, March 27, 2020
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
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