Strange Sinema 59: Strange Christmas
- When
- Fri Dec 21, 2012
- Where
- Oddball Film + Video
- Time
- 8 pm
- Cost
- $10
- Tags
- Movies
Description
Oddball Films presents Strange Sinema 59: Strange Christmas. Drawing on his archive of over 50,000 16mm film prints Oddball Films director Stephen Parr has complied a program of classic, strange, offbeat and unusual Christmas themed films. The program features the early Di$ney animated surrealism of Mickey Plays Santa Claus (1931), a bizarre clip from the schlockmeister of kids scare films Sid Davis's Santa and the Fairy Snow Queen(1951), Grant Munro's Toys (1966), featuring war toys coming to life before kids eyes in a Christmas window display, Big Business (1929) where Laurel and Hardy go door to door selling Christmas trees and wrecking slapstick havoc!, Christmas in Oaxaca (1971) featuring all the colorful costumes, parades, piņatas and rituals of Christmas in Oaxaca, Mexico, National Film Board of Canada's founder Norman McLaren's avant-garde animated Christmas Cracker (1963) and a few lively Christmas closers by Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby in Happy Holidays with Frank and Bing (1957). Plus! Holiday commercials featuring Kodak movie cameras, and early kinescopes of General Electric Christmas lighting!Date: Friday, December 21st , 2012 at 8:00PM
Venue: Oddball Film & Video, 275 Capp St. San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 RSVP to: 415-558-8117 or [email protected]
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