This Sunday, December 18, silent era animation expert and showman Tommy José Stathes of The Bray Animation Project presents his last cinematic Cartoon Carnival extravaganza of 2022 at Rubulad in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
The all-16mm Cartoon Carnival returns, with a special Yuletide program.
Shows will be at 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. that will bring pen-and-ink magic to the holiday season.
Sunday's program, We Want Santa! is a fundraiser for the Cartoon Carnival Recovery Fund.
Tommy José Stathes elaborates: "DO YOUR LAST MINUTE XMAS SHOPPING WITH US! - we'll have various goodies for sale—such as DVDs, collectible enamel pins (Betty Boop, Gumby, Koko the Clown, and others!)
Additional swag includes brand new cartoon character t-shirts in various sizes!
This will be the perfect opportunity for you to grab some last minute stocking stuffers and to support our film series at the same time."
For more info, go to Cartoons On Film and/or Tommy José.com.
Now, as far as those last-second stocking stuffers go - and, no, the 2023 Rolls-Royce will not be among them - at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog, we'll delve into the latest and greatest books about classic movies and animation. One stellar tome by Keith Scott has been covered enthusiastically here - and it bears repeating, his 2-volume work on Cartoon Voices Of The Golden Age 1930-1970 (Animation and Radio) is AMAZING.
Jerry Beck covers quite a few of the favorite books about animation by Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog in his My Way Overdue 2022 Book Reviews piece on Cartoon Research.
There are also two books on silents the gang at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog love. One is an outstanding biography, ten years in the making, of the great movie comedienne Marion Davies, by Lara Gabrielle.
In such classic late silents as The Red Mill, The Patsy and Show People, Davies proved a frequently inspired mimic and comic actress.
Miss Davies followed The Patsy and Show People by bringing her considerable comedy chops and joie de vivre into talkies in such 1930's films as Peg O' My Heart, Blondie Of The Follies and It's A Wise Child.
Lara has done a terrific job tracing the life and times of an inspired and very funny comedienne who remains better known as the mistress of publisher-magnate William Randolph Hearst than as a notable actress in movies.
The other incredible book, Lame Brains & Lunatics Volume 2, the latest by silver screen comedy expert Steve Massa explores the nooks and crannies of silent era comedy films.
The author of Lame Brains And Lunatics: The Good, The Bad And The Forgotten Of Silent Comedy, Slapstick Divas: The Women Of Silent Comedy, Marcel Perez: The International Mirthmaker, Rediscovering Roscoe: The Films Of "Fatty" Arbuckle - and co-star of YouTube's Silent Comedy Watch Party - has done it again.
Lame Brains And Lunatics 2: More Good, The Bad And The Forgotten Of Silent Comedy is yet another treasure trove of classic movie research, a Super Bowl - World Series - NBA - NHL Finals of screen comedy scholarship that also turns out to be a great read. . . and a Buy This Book proposition.
We raise the goblet, toast all of you and all the luminaries mentioned in this post. Prost!
To all reading Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog, it's a Christmas season Prost! (Proust?)
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