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A sad character weeps and walks while carrying a boulder he is tied to which he plans to drown himself with. Lyrics: Everything is over and I'm feeling bad

Lyrics: I lost the best pal that I ever had.

Closeup on character writing a suicide note. His crying is escalating. His pen is also weeping. Lyrics: Seems like she's gone though for twenty year

A deeper close up on the character during his moment of crisis. Lyrics: Oh, how I miss her my old pal.

The follow-the-bouncing-ball singalong Screen Song short films from Fleischer are the purest distillation of the Great Depression as a cultural point of view as depicted in the animation of its day. This is from My Gal Sal (1930).

A sad character weeps and walks while carrying a boulder he is tied to which he plans to drown himself with. Lyrics: Everything is over and I'm feeling bad

Lyrics: I lost the best pal that I ever had.

Closeup on character writing a suicide note. His crying is escalating. His pen is also weeping. Lyrics: Seems like she's gone though for twenty year

A deeper close up on the character during his moment of crisis. Lyrics: Oh, how I miss her my old pal.

The follow-the-bouncing-ball singalong Screen Song short films from Fleischer are the purest distillation of the Great Depression as a cultural point of view as depicted in the animation of its day. This is from My Gal Sal (1930).

"Content Unavailable" two words every Canadian is all too familiar with. Just checked and doesn't look like any of those five thousand animated TV shows that Tubi got this month are available to us. Naturally. Streaming ain't your friend, DVD remains undefeated.

A cat lady looking at a door that reads ANIMATED CARTOON STUDIO

A row of animal animators drawing their pages.

A band playing musical score, which is being recorded directly onto the film strip

Animal folks gathered around for an outdoor movie screening.

MAKIN' 'EM MOVE (1931) from Van Beuren is one of the most charming early '30s animated films I've seen; a behind-the-scenes look inside a cartoon studio, showing to some accuracy aspects of filmmaking and transitioning into a screening of a film within the film.

The Mysteries of Dorothy Vallens: On Isabella Rossellini in “Blue Velvet” A look at one of the most essential performances of the '80s.

I was invited to participate in Women Writers Week at the Ebert website, and I wrote about Isabella Rossellini's performance in BLUE VELVET, and how she helped guide the film into its dark and mysteries places.

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I can't imagine The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits receiving similar treatment of CGI replaced all original effects. There'd be uproar. Space-nerd fans are the worst for culturally treating the Star Trek TOS CGI cut as acceptable.

A legitimate complaint. I can't watch Star Trek when it pops up on my TV sci-fi channel for that reason. I only watch it via my Blu-rays. The original special effects are integral to the tone.

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Making 'Em Move (Harry Bailey & John Foster, 1931)

When this started, I was expecting something a little more fantastical like Jack King's A Cartoonist's Nightmare (1935) Looney Tune about a cartoonist dreaming of his own hell. Compared to that, this plays more like an animated documentary, just with humans replaced with animal-folk.

A cat lady looking at a door that reads ANIMATED CARTOON STUDIO

A row of animal animators drawing their pages.

A band playing musical score, which is being recorded directly onto the film strip

Animal folks gathered around for an outdoor movie screening.

MAKIN' 'EM MOVE (1931) from Van Beuren is one of the most charming early '30s animated films I've seen; a behind-the-scenes look inside a cartoon studio, showing to some accuracy aspects of filmmaking and transitioning into a screening of a film within the film.

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two faded black and white behind-the-scenes photographs from the '30s of this Fleischer camera in action, photographing miniature model sets

Wizards of motion picture creation.

It was used in the finale of a 1935 Betty Boop short Grampy's Indoor Outing wherein the exterior shot of an apartment building is transformed into a rotating roller coaster. And I highly recommend seeking out the iconic Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor in HD, which pops with 3D backdrops.

The finale of Christmas Comes But Once A Year (1936), wherein Grampy as Santa Claus is presenting a Christmas tree to a bunch of orphan children. They're all animated, but the tree is a three dimensional miniature model. The tree even rotates.

Yup. Max Fleischer invented what he called the Stereoptical Process, the mix of traditional animation with three dimensional real-life miniature models, and it was a regular feature of their Color Classics series. It looks unreal in the new restoration of Christmas Comes But Once A Year.

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Between the UCLA restorations and the Fleischer Restored! Project which I follow on Patreon, this is a golden age period of sorts for watching many of the more obscure Fleischer shorts in the best condition since their initial 1930s screenings.

Buzzy Boop, she should've been a star. Sadly, she only appears in two shorts. The later-years Betty Boop series is one with an identity crisis, but those Buzzy Boop ones are so charming, wish they had explored that more.

There should be a church, but when you go inside all of the stained glass portraits are of Patty Mullen in Frankenhooker

Backlit filmstrip magnified under a loupe showing Jennifer Beals smiling in Flashdance, covered in haphazard white and green scratch lines.

Backlit filmstrip magnified under a loupe showing Jennifer Beals smiling in Flashdance, covered in haphazard white and green scratch lines.

Backlit filmstrip magnified under a loupe showing Jennifer Beals smiling in Flashdance, covered in haphazard white and green scratch lines.

Backlit filmstrip showing a few frames of Jennifer Beals smiling in Flashdance, covered in haphazard white and green scratch lines.

Caught some interesting scratch patterns on our recently acquired print of Flashdance, real smdh moment during inspection 🥲

Backlit filmstrip magnified under a loupe showing Jennifer Beals in Flashdance.

Backlit filmstrip magnified under a loupe showing a dance scene in Flashdance.

Backlit filmstrip magnified under a loupe showing a dance scene in Flashdance.

Backlit filmstrip magnified under a loupe showing a dance scene in Flashdance.

Aside from persistent scratches I think it’s gonna look pretty good though! Plays today at 330 at @brattletheatre.bsky.social

Friday the 13th Part 2 High School Portraits of Terror: The Final Curtain The Boxer's Omen A "Heart" rating for all 4.

Letterboxd Friday. Ed Wood's liminal TV pilot. Boxer's Omen. My second Frederick Wiseman in High School. The new 4K of Friday the 13th Part II. Great movies only. #LastFourWatched

my goal is to become big enough so that a random will DM a Vimeo link to their short film asking if I can review it on my popular blog. On that day I'll delete my account.

My Quality of Life has improved because of having seen The Boxer's Omen.

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THE BOXER'S OMEN

Out of nowhere and without any provocation into the subject, Willow just asked me, "wait, does Mickey Mouse not wear a shirt?!" and then immediately Google image searched Mickey Mouse. This is why we're good together. I've destroyed her brain with my cartoon obsession.

Checking in with my animal friends.

Checking in with my animal friends.

A totally forgettable character. I'm always amazed when I remember how many episodes he was in and still leaves no lasting impression.

An 18 or 19 year old Michael Pitt

Michael Pitt in football uniform standing next to Michelle Williams in cheerleader uniform

Michael Pitt has graced the screen in my Dawson's Creek watch-through. Who can forget his 15-episode tenure from 1999-2000 that was surely this teenage actor's biggest role to date. His character traits are Football Team, and Has Crush On Jen.

I started reading Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven today and after finishing the first page immediately thought "is this gonna be one of the greatest novels I'll ever read???". I was floored. Great feeling.

I started reading Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven today and after finishing the first page immediately thought "is this gonna be one of the greatest novels I'll ever read???". I was floored. Great feeling.