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Sounds like a fun event taking place in San Francisco this Friday evening, April 30. Here’s the press release:

Enjoy an evening of Art Deco film and animation at the Legion of Honor Museum with Nik Phelps and the Sprocket Ensemble. Join Nik and the Ensemble as they treat you to a tour de force of the Deco Age from a vintage 1928 Felix the Cat to two seldom seen Busby Berkeley masterpieces as part of Art Deco Fridays in honor of the “ART DECO: 1910-1939″ exhibition. Other cartoons include Tex Avery’s MISS GLORY and Chuck Jones’ THE ARISTO CAT.

Each piece will be introduced by eminent animation and film scholar Karl Cohen and the audience will be treated to vocals and voice overs by Scrumbly Koldewyn and Cindy Goldfield. The show is free with museum admission: $8/adult, $6/seniors, $5/teens, free/children under 12 years of age, free for museum members. For info call 415/682.2481. Event starts at 6 PM and the Legion Museum is at 100 34th Avenue in Lincoln Park (San Francisco).

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A COLUMBIA CARTOON ON DVD

April 28, 2004 10:04 am

Those of you longing for Columbia Pictures to release their library of UPA and Screen Gems cartoons on dvd – you’ll have to keep waiting.But, Columbia-Tristar Home Video will commit one Color Rhapsody cartoon to digital home video this summer when it releases a “special edition” of the B-movie spoof THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVERA on dvd June 22nd. The Ub Iwerks 1937 cartoon “Skeleton Frolic”, a color remake of Disney’s “The Skeleton Dance” (1929), was re-released theatrically with LOST SKELETON in its limited theatrical release this past winter. It will be included as bonus material on the dvd. The LOST SKELETON feature itself is hilarious, and highly recommended regardless – the addition of this bonus cartoon makes it a must-buy.

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Classic Comic Site

April 27, 2004 5:35 pm

An inspiring WEBSITE offering a visual history of comics, from more than a thousand years ago through 1930. Lots of great scans of comics that can’t be found anywhere else on-line. Plus photos of cartoonists, a history of speech balloons and much more. A lot of my favorites are here – Lyonel Feininger, Milt Gross, Cliff Sterrett – as well as a lot of names that I’d like to see more of, such as Olaf Gulbransson, Herbert Crowley and Oscar Anderson. Enjoy the site and try not to think too much about how in less than a century we’ve passed from the sheer beauty and creativity of these comics to the visual insipidity of DRABBLE.

(Thanks to Jared Chapman’s blog for the link)

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ON THE FRONT LINES

April 27, 2004 10:29 am

Asifa-Hollywood will be celebrating the release of the landmark Disney Treasures DVD On The Front Lines: The War Years with a special screening of rare 35mm prints at the Alex Theatre in Glendale.In addition to the films, arrangements are being made for a special panel of industry professionals to speak, to discuss the work and culture at Walt Disney that went into creating these animted films.The DVD collection, on sale May 18th, contains 32 short subjects (including Education For Death and Der Fuerher’s Face) and exclusive declassified material. In addition to these films, this DVD also includes the full-length feature “Victory Through Air Power” (1943).The special screening will take place Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 8:00 P.M.
Alex Theatre
216 North Brand Boulevard
Glendale, CAGeneral Admission Tickets: $10
Members of ASIFA-Hollywood – $7.00
Members of the Alex Film Society – $7.00
Purchase tickets online or call the Alex Theatre box office at 818-243-ALEX (2539).
More Info: www.alextheatre.org or www.asifa-hollywood.org

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