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Friday, Mar 30, 2001
Classic Animation
The animation collection at UCLA Film and Television Archive is one of the world's greatest, with more than a thousand films encompassing the beginnings of the art form at the dawn of cinema through the sophisticated computer imagery of today. This program spotlights animation's "golden age" of the 1930s and 1940s, and includes films preserved from vintage black-and-white, Technicolor, and Cinecolor original negatives, as well as others copied from sole-surviving nitrate prints.-Jere Guldin, Film PreservationistIncluded in the program are:Ub Iwerks Comicolor Cartoons: The Brave Tin Soldier (1934), Jack and the Beanstalk (1933), and Balloonland (1935). George Pal Puppetoons: Sky Princess (1942), And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1944), and Tubby the Tuba (1946). Max Fleischer Color Classics: Little Dutch Mill (1934) and Musical Memories (1935). Max Fleischer Talkartoon with Betty Boop: Any Rags (1932). Max Fleischer Screen Song with Ethel Merman: You Try Somebody Else (1932). Walter Lanz Oswald the Rabbit Cartoon: Confidence (1933).Note: On Saturday, March 31, two silent cartoons will be screened: Max Fleisher's Koko's Earth Control (1928) and Walter Lanz's Homeless Homer with Oswald Rabbit (1928).
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