Gulliver's Travels & Fleischer shorts on big screen!

[Ratso]

But only if you can make it to San Francisco!

The Castro Theatre has a couple of fun Five Buck Tuesdays this month. Quoting from the calendar (http://www.castrotheatre.com/calendar.htm):

Tuesday, April 21: The Animation Madness of Max Fleischer
This wonderful collection from the animation pioneer collects his most popular creations in one fantastic program. Headlining is the 70th Anniversary of Gulliver's Travels (1939, Original 3-Strip Technicolor Print), preceded by the shorts Betty Boop in Blunderland (1933), Superman's Mechanical Monsters (1941), and Popeye Meets Ali Baba & His Forty Thieves (1937) (Total program runs 109 minutes, all 35mm)

Tuesday, April 28: Three Stooges Shorts: Curly's Greatest Hits
This collection of shorts showcases Moe, Larry & Curly at their peak, spanning over the course of a decade. Included in the program: Microphonies (1945), Hoi Polloi (1935), We Want Our Mummy (1939), Calling All Curs (1939), Disorder in the Court (1936), Violent is the Word for Curly (1938), An Ache in Every Steak (1941). (Total program approx 126 min, all 35mm) Note: The list does not represent the order in which they will be shown (it doesn't matter - they're all funny!)

ALSO IN SAN FRANCISCO:

Nina Paley's Sita Sing the Blues plays the Red Vic Movie House (http://www.redvicmoviehouse.com/) May 8-12.

[The G Man]

HOLY CRAP. They had the exact same Fleischer lineup at the Monterey Film Festival last month, only spread out over two consecutive weekends. I was there for both of 'em (and so was Bill Plympton, for the first one).

One thing's for sure - there ain't nothing like seeing old cartoons on film in a theater (especially one like the Castro, which has an organist and everything).

[Studio Toledo]

HOLY CRAP. They had the exact same Fleischer lineup at the Monterey Film Festival last month, only spread out over two consecutive weekends. I was there for both of 'em (and so was Bill Plympton, for the first one).

One thing's for sure - there ain't nothing like seeing old cartoons on film in a theater (especially one like the Castro, which has an organist and everything).
I've only ever witnessed that once in my lifetime, about 12 years ago at the Michigan Theater (http://www.michtheater.org/) in Ann Arbor. Seeing a silent sepia-toned print on the big screen with an organist (too bad I had to sit in the balcony area, oh well, it was a group effort to get up there in the first place). I only wish we had something like that here in Toledo.

[Ratso]

I really doubt that the organist will play an interlude on Five Buck Tuesdays, but you never know.

[Gasmask Ted]

You're less than an hour from the Michigan Theater; if some old animation shows up there, I'm sure you'll make the drive. (There was live organ music before the Hertzfeldt showing last Friday there, even...) I'm not sure I've ever seen any classic animation at the Michigan tho; I'd really been hoping they'd have a 3D short when they had Dial M For Murder in 3D last year, but no luck.

[Studio Toledo]

You're less than an hour from the Michigan Theater; if some old animation shows up there, I'm sure you'll make the drive. (There was live organ music before the Hertzfeldt showing last Friday there, even...) I'm not sure I've ever seen any classic animation at the Michigan tho; I'd really been hoping they'd have a 3D short when they had Dial M For Murder in 3D last year, but no luck.
Best I've noticed they showed a couple months back was Nelson Shin's "Empress Chung", which I'm kinda surprise isn't out on DVD anywhere, he's very protective of that one is he? :p

[Gasmask Ted]

There's a fair amount of modern animation at the Michigan; the Academy Award shorts program is usually there, the Animation Show has been there, Miyazaki and I think Satoshi Kon movies usually show up there (I saw Mononoke there), plus other indie circuit animation (I saw Triplets of Belleville there). When at U of M I think all the non-current animation I saw on a big screen in A2 was elsewhere; WB festival and censored cartoon program on campus, Fritz the Cat was at the State, etc.

It's possible the Michigan has had classic animation recently, but I'm not nearly as in touch with their schedule as I was when I was in school and walking distance from it.

[Studio Toledo]

There's a fair amount of modern animation at the Michigan; the Academy Award shorts program is usually there, the Animation Show has been there,
Again, things that need to show up in my town too!

Miyazaki and I think Satoshi Kon movies usually show up there (I saw Mononoke there),
I had to see Mononoke some 10 years ago at a defunct cinema at a mall that's being torn down in the south end (sad to see it go).

plus other indie circuit animation (I saw Triplets of Belleville there).
Saw that one at another defunct cinema much closer to my house, now they (National Amusements) has allocated all the arty stuff to a theater in Perrysburg, which sucks since I don't have any good means of transportation to get there. They really ruined my cinema-going experience for the past decade after buying out the AMC chain here.

When at U of MI think all the non-current animation I saw on a big screen in A2 was elsewhere; WB festival and censored cartoon program on campus, Fritz the Cat was at the State, etc.

It's possible the Michigan has had classic animation recently, but I'm not nearly as in touch with their schedule as I was when I was in school and walking distance from it.
That's OK, I was only thinking of that theater in particular since I wish I could go back again (again, don't ask why I don't drive, I just don't have a license, that's an even longer story that delves deeper into my life I don't want to talk about for another 20 years! By then I'll have enough to write a book I know will be a bestseller to a generation wasted on whatever future disaster strikes)

[cartoonfan4ever]

Oh man. Wish I could make that one. Especially for Popeye Meets Ali Baba & His Forty Thieves.

[gdX]

Popeye Meets Ali Baba & His Forty Thieves"Abu Hassan got 'em anymore!"

Violent is the Word for CurlyB-A-Bay
B-E-Bee
B-I-Bicky-Bye
B-O-Bo
Bicky-Bye-Bo-B-U-Boo
Bicky-Bye-Bo-Boo

[jonmayo15]

B-A-Bay
B-E-Bee
B-I-Bicky-Bye
B-O-Bo
Bicky-Bye-Bo-B-U-Boo
Bicky-Bye-Bo-Boo
Oddly enough, that's been stuck in my head all this week!

[Ratso]

The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo do a naughty version of that tune in The Forbidden Zone, much of which seems to be inspired by 1930s cartoons--especially Danny Elfman's Cab Calloway riff as Satan.