Oddball Films Presents
The Hard Times Revue: Depression Era Diversions
- When
- Fri Dec 28, 2012
- Where
- Oddball Film + Video
- Time
- 8 pm
- Cost
- $10
- Tags
- Movies, Film Screenings, Film Organizations, Organizations
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Description
Oddball Films brings you The Hard Times Revue: Depression-Era Diversions, an evening of cartoons, musical numbers and ephemeral oddities from the 1930s. One of the darkest decades of the 20th Century, America in the 1930s faced untold hardships like the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl and cinema supplied a much-needed diversion, but could never quite shake the bleakness of the times. This program of vintage films highlights the struggle of the American people and the fantasies invented to alleviate their hardships. Betty Boop gets hooked on smack in the blackballed cartoon interpretation of the Cab Calloway song Minnie the Moocher (1932). 7 year-old Sammy Davis junior shines as he sings and dances his way to the Oval Office in the controversial all-black musical comedy Rufus Jones for President (1932). Spencer Tracy imagines a haunting, writhing Hell in Dante's Inferno (1935). George Pal will knock you off your feet in his art deco puppet wonderland in the early Puppetoon Cavalcade of Music (1934). The famous talking Tiffany Chimps get into hilarious anthropomorphic antics, make an ass of yourself, playing Donkey Baseball (1935) and bundle up with Duke Ellington in Bundle of Blues (1933). Plus timely newsreels, musical surprises and so much more!More Info
- Link
- http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-oddball-follies...
- Call
- 415-558-8117 (Box Office)
- Contact Form (account required)
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