Short Film Schedule Aug 22-24, 2007

[andersenrv]

Short Film Schedule Aug 22-24, 2007

 

8/22 12:07am/9:07p - Polar Outpost 1957-15m-RKOS (Cold War)

 

8/22 4:18am/1:18a - The Emergency Case 1930-10m-comedy

8/22 7:46am/4:46a - How To Watch Football 1938-9m-RB

8/22 9:46am/6:46a - Three On a Rope 1938-10m-PSS (rock climbing)

8/22 11:15pm/8:15p - World Famous Musical Hits 2000-9m-M

 

8/23 5:43am/2:43a - King of the Duplicators 1968-12m-doc (make up artist William Tuttle)

8/23 7:36am/4:36a - Italy's In Season 1967-7m-MOD (Three Bites of the Apple)

 

8/24 12:02am/9:02p - Meeting the Challenge: International Velvet 1978-10m-MOD

 

acronym key:

A=Animated

BF=The Boy Friends

CC=Charley Chase

CDNP=Crime Does Not Pay

doc=Documentary

DV=Dogville

EK=Edgar Kennedy

FA=Fatty Arbuckle

HL=Harold Lloyd

HM=Historical Mystery

JM=Joe McDoakes

JNPP=John Nesbitt's Passing Parade

LE=Leon Errol

LH=Laurel & Hardy

LT=Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies

M=Musical

MC=Musical Comedy

MOD=Making Of Documentary

PSS=Pete Smith Specialty

RB=Robert Benchley

RKOS=RKO Screenliners/Sportscopes

TJ=Tom & Jerry

TK=Todd & Kelly

TT=Traveltalks

[Fedya]

> Short Film Schedule Aug 22-24, 2007

 

[...]

 

> 8/22 4:18am/1:18a - The Emergency Case

> 1930-10m-comedy

 

I'd use the word "comedy" advisedly. This is one of those early talkies where the studios were trying to figure out what to do now that they could put sound in the movies, and the result falls really, really flat. Why couldn't they dig out The Hard Guy (1930) instead? At least that's got Spencer Tracy.

 

[...]

 

> 8/23 5:43am/2:43a - King of the Duplicators

> 1968-12m-doc (make up artist William Tuttle)

 

Oooh, this is an interesting one.

[forgetitjake]

> 8/23 5:43am/2:43a - King of the Duplicators

> 1968-12m-doc (make up artist William Tuttle)

>

> Oooh, this is an interesting one.

 

 

Yes, especially in light of his passing away last

month at age 95. It's a good time for TCM

to repeat this short.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/02/AR2007080202292.html

[Factotum]

"EMERGENCY CASE" starring rightly forgotten Hugh Cameron, was indeed a terrible excuse for comedy. But by late 1930, sound was not a new or experimental thing. The kings of Comedy, Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, had been putting out talkie sshort subjects since 1928 and 29 respectively, Fox, Educational, Pathe and Paramount were producing their own as well, and Vitaphone had been churning out one reelers by the hundreds since 1926. It was just a very poor film, with all-unfunny gags.