Harvest of Shame (CBS 1960 b&w 60 min)
Migrant (NBC 1970 color 53 min)�
Social justice film by Edward Morrow originally broadcast Thanksgiving 1960, and a follow up film.
December 8
Miracle Healers (Don Como 1978 color 60 min) The Reverend Jim Jones’ own film promoting his Peoples Temple cult religion. One year after this was filmed, Jim Jones and over 900 cult members died in a mass suicide using cynide laced Kool-Aid at Jonestown Guyana.
December 15
The Photographer (Willard Van Dyke 1947 b&w 25 min) about Edward Weston
Ansel Adams, Photographer (Larry Dawson 1958 b&w 20 min)
December 22
Banks & The Poor (NET 1970 B&W 60 min) Nixon was so infuriated by this documentary that he vetoed Public Broadcasting’s budget
December 29
Animation Rare original Technicolor, Kodachrome and black & white films
Doughnuts (Van Burien 1933 B&W)�
Gypped in Egypt (Van Burien 1930 B&W)
When I Yoo Hoo (Warner Bros. 1936 Technicolor)
Stop That Tank (Disney 1942 Kodachrome)
Grain that built a Hemisphere. (Spanish language) (Disney 1943 Technicolor)
Reckless Driver (Lantz 1946 B&W) with banned scene
Scrub me Mama (Lantz 1941 B&W)
Everglade Raid (Lantz 1958 Technicolor)
Destination Earth (Amer. Petroleum Inst. 1957 Technicolor)
Der Blau Dunst (German language) (NFBC 1965 color)
January 5
The Girl Can’t Help It. (1956 Tashlin b&w 97 min) starring Little Richard, the Platters, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and Fats Domino and starring Jayne Mansfield in a great performance that makes this the best of the first-generation rock & roll movies.� This is a rare vintage 1956 original print on sharp Kodak 16mm black & white film stock.�
February 2 2009
Drinking Driving & Dating
Taken together, these four films offer a fascinating glimpse into teenage mores fifty to sixty years ago, in sharp black & white vintage film prints.
Last Date (Wilding 1950 B&W 15 min.) One of the best teen driving scare films. This is the infamous teenacide film, the first movie to brand teenagers as reckless breeders of highway mayhem.
None For The Road (Centron 1957 B&W 15 min.) Three teen couples dancing at a tavern drink heavily, moderately or not at all, with a surprise ending. Interspersed are lab experiments where rats are injected with liquor by a university scientist (actually a Kansas City radio announcer).