NORMAL FILMS and RESURRECTION MEDIA present:

*** THE (cancelled) TED V. MIKELS TOUR BENEFIT/FUNDRAISER 16mm
CHRISTMAS SHOW ***

UNSPOOLING FROM 8PM ONWARDS

MONDAY the 16th OF DECEMBER, 2002

the back room

714 NICHOLSON STREET (CNR. NICHOLSON & SCOTCHMER STREETS),
NORTH FITZROY. PHONE 04 25 74 28 01

$5 FIVE BUCKS AT THE DOOR $5

ALL PRESENTED ON GROOVY 16 MILLIMETER FILM!


PROGRAMME:

*SANTA WITCH (1957),
Gumby and his pal Pokey and their claymation adventures. He was once a
little green glob of clay... Prod/Dir. Art Clokey. Clokey Productions,
National Broadcasting Company. Mus: John Seely. Theme Song: Pete
Kleinow. Vocal Talent: Art Clokey (Gumby, Pokey), Dallas McKennon
(Gumby), Bobby Nicholson (Scotty McKee/Host). 6 mins.


*CHRISTMAS FLINTSTONE (1964),
Macyrock-Santa Fred must fill in for the actual, ailing Santa Claus on
Christmas Eve. Feat: Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles, Barney
Rubble, Betty Rubble, Bamm-Bamm.Prod Co. Hanna-Barbera Studios.
Prod/Dir. William Hanna, Joseph Barbera. Anim. Ed Aardel, George
Goepper, Gerry Hathcock, Ed Love, Dick Lundy, Kenneth Muse, George
Nichols, Don Patterson, Irv Spence, Carlo Vinci. Wr. Warren Foster.
Mus: Hoyt Curtain. Vocal Talent: Alan Reed (Fred), Jean Vander Pyl
(Wilma), Mel Blanc (Barney), Gerry Johnson (Betty). 27 mins.


*A CHRISTMAS DREAM (1959),
A magnificent piece of Yuletide ephemera, which has to be seen to be
believed. A kitschy seasonal highlight. 6 mins.


*A HOWDY DOODY CHRISTMAS, (aka HOWDY DOODY'S CHRISTMAS, aka HOWDY
DOODY'S CHRISTMAS TREE) (195?),
It's Christmas Eve at Howdy Doody's house and you'll meet Howdy,
Buffalo Bob (Smith), The Fontane Sisters, Clarabell, Ugly Sam and,
finally, Santa Claus. A delightful(ly creepy) film, filled with comedy
and suspicion, for children of all ages. 10 Minutes - Black and White.


*PEACE ON EARTH (1939),
On Christmas Eve, two squirrel-children ask their grandfather what men
are. He describes them, then narrates the story of how humanity
destroyed itself by war, as chilling scenes of armed conflict play on
the screen. After the last human dies, the animals take their war
impliments and build homes from them, to live forever in peace.
Featuring: Squirrel-Children, Grandfather Squirrel. Remade in 1955 as
Good Will to Men. Awards: Academy Award Nominee, Short Subject
(Cartoon), 1940. Prod. Co. MGM. Dir. Hugh Harman. Prod. Fred Quimby.
Wr. Jack Cosgriff, Charles McGirl, Khat Harman. Mus. Scott Bradley. 8
mins.


AND FEATURING:

*A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM [-US TITLE] (Sen noci svatojanske) (1959),
This film is a masterpiece of visual storytelling - a reminder of just
how wondrous animation can be when it doesn't insult a viewer's
intelligence a la Walt Disney. Indeed, it's surprisingly adult at
times. The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the
famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this
story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world
of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic
creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most
remarkable Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world
animation.

A randy goat (under the influence of magic love potion) tries to rape
the fairy Puck. The two runaway lovers, Hermia and Lysander, slip into
an eerily vulva-shaped cave to consummate their love.

Otherwise, this is an exemplary reading of the text. Jiri Trnka's
visualisation of the Enchanted Forest - every inch of it swathed in
moonlight and dripping with rose petals, fairy wings, spying owls -
rivals the Baroque splendours of the 1935 Max Reinhardt film. Even the
amateur actors' performance of 'Pyramus and Thisbe' ( - an irksome
comic interlude in most stagings) is transformed by Puck's magic into a
heart-soaring experience.

Trnka is widely considered the grandfather of Czech animation. It was
his feature-length A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959), the first ever
puppet film, that introduced the country's blossoming art to the rest
of the world. Played out by graceful, delicate puppets, the Shakespeare
adaptation is sprinkled with glitter and shimmers the way fairy-tales
should. For better or worse, it marked the Czech Republic as a land of
puppeteers and stop-motion animators. Even now, the phrase

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