Entertainment Notes from Sunday, August 29, 2021 including Prof. Tommy Stathes Cartoon Carnival Program #97, Out to Sea at The City Reliquary

I'll work backwards on (my own) questions from Sunday. There was a 1966 Jan Svankmayer (b September 4, 1934) puppet movie called Punch and Judy on youtube which Zora and I watched before I went to bed... Maira introduced Zora (and me) the the work of Jan Svankmayer through his Alice feature film, also on youtube. The Punch and Judy characters are not Punch and Judy, so the question is, what is that 10 minute movie? imdb trivia: The two protagonists from the traditional Punch and Judy puppet show are Mr Punch and Joey the Clown, a buffoon and jester? The title of the movie is Rakvickarna, and it could be more accurately be called by another name by which it is "known," "The Coffin House." oh, from imdb user reviews (what great free content imdb acquires from its contributors) the US title should be Punch and Jody (Judy's male counterpart). The guinea pig is nature's indifference to human conflict. Tommy's 16mm screenings incuded Small Fry, Max Fleischer, 1939, and the question is about its adaptation of the Hoagy Charmichael song. Did the movie introduce the song? no, lyric by Frank Loesser, introduced by Bing Crosby in Sing You Sinners, 1938. Fleischer's 1930 Barnacle Bill's soundtrack seemed familiar but not the wild animation. I thought it was a Popeye cartoon. The one he showed after called Dizzy Divers 1935, is a Popeye Cartoon, about splitting a treasure chest 50/50 with Bluto. Ah, there are many Barnacle Bills...It's a old drinking song. I'm realizing the end of the first release of Zappa's Gregory Peckery includes a question asked as in this drinking song. THe Wreck of the Hesperus is an 1842 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Mickey Mouse saving the day and the ticker tape parade that honors him. Ub Iwerks Davy Jones Locker and Sinbad the Sailor featured expressions of Iwerks' unique imagination. I don't have examples. Perhaps its the transformations and unlikely connections in the animation. Inquiries into these individual cartoons are already well covered on familiar ground. Animated movies lend themselves well to obsessive history exploration. One thing I didn't know and we learned at Fort Green is that there were martyrs from a British Prison boat buried at the top of the hill under a massive tower, perfect for Rapunzel letting down her hair; thank you, Zora, for making that connection. We ate at Cafe Paulette at the base by the tall antena across from Fort Green Park. Its bathroom movie poster is La Valseurs, one of the series of the girl idolotry (I don't know what else to call it) of the comic duo by Bertrand Blier. 1974 movie. Cast from members of Cafe de le Gar, the Director was 35, the two leads 26 and 25. The Street Theater performances this weekend were at Fort Green and the day before at Sunset Park.