Today, in between remembering many folks we love who have left us - the latest being singer/songwriter/bandleader/guitarist and activist Sinead O' Connor, silent movie accompanist and conductor Sir Carl Davis (who we saw accompany Abel Gance's NAPOLEON), Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-Wee Herman) and ace Walt Disney Studios expert, author and historian Jim Korkis - and reading the latest indictment, the gang at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog seeks refuge in very odd classic movies. First and foremost, there's the indescribable love triangle noir melodrama Desert Fury. . . IN COLOR!
None other than Eddie Muller introduces this oddest of noirs at the 2016 Seattle Noir City fest.
Don't know who directed the following short subject starring beloved comedian, actor and cartoon voice guru Billy Bletcher getting chased around by a lobster. Who cares - we love it!
Always liked such experimental films of New Zealand sculptor-painter and sometimes animator Len Lye as Rainbow Dance, Colour Box and Trade Tattoo, and was thrilled to see he made a stop-motion animation short back in 1933.
The last time this blog posted something by the incomparable genius of stop-motion animation Ladislaw Starewicz, his family contacted me to mention that the films are under copyright.
While not knowing if the European copyrights hold for U.S. bloggers or not, promptly took 'em down. So here's a brief 5 minute clip from one notable Starewicz masterpiece; if the great artist's descendents want me to subsequently delete it, that's okay. Alas, I have given up all hope of ever seeing a 35mm print (let alone a nitrate original) on the big screen of any films by the incomparable Ladislaw and Irina Vladislavovna Starewicz; please, Starewicz family, come to the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museun and prove me wrong!
Recently ordered the Stop-Motion Marvels Blu-rays from Thunderbean Animation, so such otherworldly and bizarre cartoons as the following produced by Kinex will be waiting!
This blogger's tombstone no doubt will say "he liked bad cartoons for some reason," along with "WAY too much in moderation" and "didn't follow orders," so here's MOTHER HUBBA-HUBBA HUBBARD, a zany and definitely bizarre cartoon from the hated and despised Screen Gems studio. Do I find it funny, very funny? Yes - absolutely. Do I know why? NO! Does anybody else, including those who made the cartoon, like it? Probably not.
Watching this, wonder if it was a product of Bob Clampett's cup of coffee at the then-unraveling Screen Gems studio. That opening animation with the dog (starting at 0:22) sure looks like something Bob would have done at Warner Brothers with wacky Rod Scribner as "featured soloist." I'll still take this and most of the other Columbia cartoons (sans - ouch - A BOY, A GUN & BIRDS and the horrible Lil' Abner series) over a 1951 Famous Studios opus 365 days a year.
And, while speaking of Famous Studios, this begs the question who made our favorite bizarre classic cartoons of all-time. Well, that would be many of the same artists who made Noveltoons and Little Audrey cartoons in the 1950's, but 25 years earlier!
Way back in the 1920's, long before other studios recruited them, these super-talented animators were cranking out frequently brilliant (and bizarre) cartoons at the NYC studio of Max & Dave Fleischer.
Behold - KOKO'S EARTH CONTROL! The gang at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog, as always, are suckers for The Inkwell Imps and Out Of The Inkwell!
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