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Charity begins at home, and
justice begins next door. --Charles Dickens
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Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco (map)
Admission: $10.00 - Limited Seating RSVP to
programming@oddballfilm.com or 415.558.8117
Program Features:
Fun With Speech, Sounds (1973)
In this film, an adorably costumed king and
queen get silly in their animated castle.
The princess teaches a servant boy a tongue-twister, pronouncing her
words emphatically and pulling out flash cards. Will the servant be able to learn?
Mabel's Married Life (1914)
In this romp of a film, Mabel's wimpy husband, played by
Chaplin, won't stand up to an amorous stranger and defend her from his
advances. She buys her husband a boxing dummy with the hope it will make a man
out of him, but he comes home drunk and mistakes the dummy for the bully and
tries to eject it from the house!
The Count (1916)
The tailor's assistant (Chaplin) is dismissed for incompetence
at the same time that his boss finds a note from a count declining an
invitation to a masquerade party thrown by a wealthy heiress. His boss decides to attend in disguise!
While visiting his friend the cook, the assistant runs into his old boss who
owns up to his impersonation and suggests that he act as his secretary. The assistant gets there first,
however, and presents himself as the count and develops his own style of etiquette over
dinner, as soup, spaghetti and watermelon are presented to him.
Twin Dukes and a Duchess (ca. 1920)
This comedy in which a twin duke is sent to an
asylum for psychotic and murderous behavior. When he escapes from the asylum and returns home, he attempts to murder and impersonate his brother,
switching clothes with him while still maintaining his own tell-tail maniacally
hunched posture. The good duke is
taken to the asylum, and the psychotic one arranges to marry the sane duke's
fiance. Will the psychotic
brother get away with marrying his brother’s dame??
Etude (1973)
In this gem of a film, a man walks through a forest
wearing fancy clothes. He
approaches a waterfall, and begins conducting music in nature!
The Jazz Age (Parts 1 & 2)
In these films, see
social life and customs in America during the 1920s depicted. This was a prosperous era of excessive
pleasure-seeking which has come to be known as the Jazz Age. Important historical events of the
period traced: Part I begins with the Versailles Conference, then reveals a
picture of the Harding political campaign and scandal, rise of the Ku Klux
Klan, American town life, new manners and morals for women, and widespread use
of the automobile. Other subjects
covered include nightclubs of the prohibition era, wild stock market
speculation, bootlegging industry, racketeering, and popularity of foreign
travel. Part II shows night life
of Paris, Josephine Baker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lindbergh's flight, ticker tape
parade,American sports, Hoover campaign, stars of show business, Ziegfeld
Follies type dancing, and the stock market crash in 1929. Illustrated throughout with archive newsreel
footage, and narrated by the late Fred Allen!
Social Sea Lions (1940)
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No one is useless in this world
who lightens
the burdens of another. -- Charles Dickens
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Eve’s Love Letters (1927)
In this rare film, Laurel is a butler for a wealthy
couple. The wife of the couple receives letters from a “mystery mailer” who
blackmails her for past love letters she wrote to Sir Oliver Hardy before her
marriage. The blackmailer asks for
$10,000 -- otherwise he will turn her over to her husband! She tries to get
Laurel to retrieve those letters by sneaking into her ex-lovers house and
shenanegans ensue! The husband
tries to find out where she was while she was out with Laurel but loyal Laurel
covers for her with a heroically comedic effort!
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It was the best of times,
it was
the worst of times. – Charles
Dickens
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In this hilarious gem of
a film, Laurel and Hardy are chimney sweeps who destroy a chimney in the
process of trying to clean it. The
house belongs to a mad scientist experimenting with a youth potion. The mad scientist invites them to
witness an experiment in which he turns a duckling into an egg. While trying to repeat the experiment
with a fish, Hardy falls into the bath with a beaker of potion, and comes out a
chimpanzee!
Charles Dickens: An Introduction to His Life and Work (1979)
This documentary chaulk full of re-enactments is an
entertaining and informative background to the study of Dickens and his period.
Get a sense of the time he lived in when a fictional Victorian audience gathers
in a tent to see it all. Bill Marigold regales them with a magic lantern show
on the life and work of Charles Dickens. Included are dramatizations from
several of Dickens’ novels!
Curator Biography
Emily Schleiner is a Brooklyn and Davis CA-based new media artist and thinker. She has been writing since 2009 and has shown internationally. She has been published in the Trondheim's TEKS's 'Making Reality Real' Journal and has presented at the 2nd Inter-Disciplinary.net Global Conference in Budapest. She received her Masters from Performance and Interactive Media Arts department at Brooklyn College, NY in 2010.
Emily Schleiner is a Brooklyn and Davis CA-based new media artist and thinker. She has been writing since 2009 and has shown internationally. She has been published in the Trondheim's TEKS's 'Making Reality Real' Journal and has presented at the 2nd Inter-Disciplinary.net Global Conference in Budapest. She received her Masters from Performance and Interactive Media Arts department at Brooklyn College, NY in 2010.