Alex Film Society Presents the Sunday, December 26 2 & 7 pm only

Cartoon Hall of Fame Big Screen Event

The Rabbit of Seville (1950, Chuck Jones, Warner Bros.) Superman Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd’s long (1941-42, Dave Fleischer, running feud ends up on stage at Paramount) Featuring science the Hollywood Bowl, bringing a fiction plots, stylized environments, new and riotous interpretation to complex cinematography and Rossini’s “Barber of Seville.” human characters in fantastic circumstances, these shorts about the Man of Steel’s battle with mad scientists, arch criminals, wartime enemies and gigantic monsters, began a series that Snow White (1933, Dave Fleischer, Paramount) One of the has had untold influence on both animation and live-action most unusual cartoons ever made is filmmakers to this day.Because 35 mm prints of these a retelling of the Snow White story cartoons are so rare, the title of the short we will see will -years before the Disney feature- be announced during the performance. featuring Betty Boop and a ghostly narrator (Cab Calloway) singing the Duck Dodgers In The 241/2 th “Saint James Infirmary Blues.” Century (1953, Chuck Jones, Warner Bros.) This parody of popular sci-fi serials like “Buck Rogers” and “Flash Gordon”, The Band Concert (1935, Wilfred Jackson, Disney) pits our heroes, Duck Dodgers The first Mickey Mouse cartoon and his “eager young space in color and only the fourth one cadet” Porky, against Marvin the featuring a little scene-stealing Martian (“Commander X-2”) in an escalating and hysterical duck named Donald. The band, intergalactic battle for lludium Phosdex, the shaving cream featuring all of Disney’s early atom. cartoon characters, is performing the “William Tell Overture” when, during One Froggy Evening (1955, Chuck the storm sequence, a tornado decides to get into the act. Jones, Warner Bros.) One of the funniest cartoons ever conceived is also Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor a cautionary tale of avarice and human (1936, Dave Fleischer, Paramount) An incredibly popular frailty wrapped in beautifully realized two-reel Popeye cartoon and the animation. A man finds a singing frog first that had our hero eating his and, seeing his fortune made, does his best to promote the spinach in Technicolor. Popeye has talented amphibian…but the frog has other ideas. Steven to match wits and fists with his Spielberg has said this is the most perfect cartoon ever nemesis, Sindbad (Bluto). The fate made. of Olive Oyl hangs in the balance! Many scenes feature the studio’s Alex Film Society would like to extend our spectacular 3-D background effect. appreciation to Warner Bros., Walt Disney Animation, Paramount Studios and Three Little Pigs (1933, Burt Gillette, Disney) This telling of the Fleischer Studios as well as the the Three Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf was not only ground- UCLA Film and Television Archive for breaking in its use of story-telling techniques and character prints and permissions needed to produce our show. animation, but also became a We’d also like to send special thanks to the members of metaphor for surviving the Great ASIFA-Hollywood and Jeff Wike, Antran Manoogian, Depression of the 1930’s. The song, Margaret Kerry Willcox, Jerry Beck, Tom Sito, Frank “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” Gladstone, David Derks and Bill Turner for their cooperation (Frank Churchill) has become part of and financial support in helping us strike the newPopeye the American Songbook. the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor print.

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