New York animation fans, take heart: there are two very special events packed with classic cartoon goodness on the weekend. We at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog are happy to plug these fun programs curated and presented by our friend, silent era animation expert and showman Tommy José Stathes.
Tommy and the Cartoon Carnival team are back from hiatus with excellent big screen fun, starting with a Saturday matinee at the Metrograph in Manhattan.
Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Cool For School (16mm)
at Metrograph, 7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Showtime: 12pm noon
60 min. film program plus Q&A.
The press release elaborates: Come enjoy silly classroom shenanigans, neurotic school teachers, clever kid delinquents, and other assorted scholarly trials and tribulations.
Spanning the 1910s through the ’50s, this assortment showcases classic characters such as Farmer Al Falfa, Bobby Bumps, Flip the Frog, Porky Pig, Baby Huey, Little Lulu, and others.
On Sunday at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn, the long-awaited theatrical debut of Cartoon Carnival: The Documentary (2021) will be shown as part of Animation Block Party 2023 (20th season!)
Delving into the history of WW1 era animated cartoons, Cartoon Carnival: The Documentary chronicles the history of early animation.
The documentary' press release adds: it was wholly inspired by the Tommy Stathes Cartoon Carnival.
Produced and directed by UK-based documentarian Andrew T. Smith, a TSCC admirer from abroad, the film was shot primarily in 2015-2016. It features abundant film clips, interviews with a variety of historians, as well as footage from one of our 16mm Cartoon Carnival programs held at the now-demolished puppet workshop and theater, Standard Toykraft, in Williamsburg. This unique documentary was finally unveiled to the public through a Turner Classic Movies broadcast in October of 2021.
Here's the teaser trailer!
Tommy Stathes Presents The Cartoon Carnival Documentary
90 minute film followed by Q&A with multiple historians from the film.
BAM Rose Cinemas
Peter Jay Sharp Building
30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn
Sunday, August 20, 2023
Showtime: 4:00 p.m.
For more info, check out Cartoons On Film - Cartoon Carnival.
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