Date: Thursday, June 16th 2016 at 8:00PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00, Limited Seating, RSVP to: 415-558-8117 or rsvp@oddballfilms.com
Web: www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com
Featuring:
Gypsies (1972, B+W, Dir. Wladyslaw Slesicki)
From Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych, this enthralling non-narrative documentary provides unique insights into the nomadic life of Polish gypsies traveling around Europe in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Migrant Round Up (B+W, 1953) and Runaway Boys (B+W, 1953)
These news reel fragments feature Mexican migrants rounded up at the border and two young runaway boys returning home to a press conference.
Tin Can Tourist (B+W, 1937, Dir. Mannie Davis)
A surreal animated Terrytoon, Farmer Al Falfa and his dog hit the road in their modern, gadget-loaded trailer home. “Riding along with a trailer / Happy as can be, / No rent to pay, no landlords, / No-sir-ee!”
King of the Gypsies trailer (Color, 1978, Dir. Frank Peirson)
Portrays the criminal ways and violent lives of a group of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City. Stars Eric Roberts, Sterling Hayden, Shelly Winters, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields and Annette O’Toole
Cinematography by the famed Sven Nykvist.
Riff Raffy Daffy (B+W, 1948, Dir. Arthur Davis)
Here’s a metaphoric toast to the 99 percent. No matter where a homeless Daffy Duck goes to sleep, policeman Porky Pig is there to toss him out. Finally, Porky kicks him out of the city park entirely, and it starts snowing. Daffy decides to take shelter at the closed Macys department store. When Porky catches him, he's determined to be rid of Daffy once and for all.
The Scenemakers (Color, 1960)
An unintentionally hilarious long-form commercial presented by Monsanto(!) and J.C. Penneys. See America in style with Jan, Jill and Amy, three gals crossing the country, but always making sure to dress their best. The ladies take a ride on the Delta Queen riverboat in their sporty twinsets. They tour a plantation in long evening gowns. One meets a gambler with an eye patch and plays blackjack. They change into short cocktail dresses and go to a nightclub in the French Quarter to listen to ragtime and jazz. They take a drive through Pikes Peak National Forest in a convertible and wear cowboy hats. They go to a beach in California, model their bathing suits, then build a bonfire in cable knit sweaters. They drive the convertible to San Francisco and stay at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. They ride a cable car in stylish daytime suits and dresses and go to the Japanese Tea garden, and drive down Lombard St. They fly home in style on an American Airlines jet, undoubtedly to buy more stylish clothes from Penney's.
Easy Rider trailer (Color, 1969, Dir. Peter Fonda)
Two stoned out bikers hit the road to discover American in this anti establishment classic. Stars Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.
Darktown Strutters trailer (Color, 1975, Dir. William Whitney)
The cult black motorcycle gang rock scifi musical is action-packed and filled Keystone Cops styled antics with soulful music of the legendary Dramatics.
USA Film (Color, 1977, Dir. Eric Martin)
This experimental film collapses 4,000 coast-to-coast miles (From Washington DC to San Francisco) into a high speed 17 minute single-framed opus incorporating found sound and radio broadcasts creating a jittery, pulsating whirlwind of images.
The Hitch-Hiker (B+W, 1953)
A naughty hitch-hiker creates chaos on the roadway when she strips for a ride! This lady's no tramp, she's just having car trouble! But this naughty short serves as a reminder that--homeless or not--any one of us might someday be forced to rely on the kindness of strangers....
Brooklyn Goes to Las Vegas (B+W, 1956, Dir. Arthur Cohen)
A caustic Brooklynite spends a night in Sin City, strikes it rich and heads home with a wagonload of cash and women. Featuring remarkable footage of old Las Vegas narrated through the voice of Arthur Cohen - a true Brooklynite. A laugh riot! 
Naughty Stewardesses/Blazing Stewardesses trailers (Color, 1974, Dir. Al Adamson)
Erotic fly girls-flying high in the sky!
The Tramp (1915, B+W, Dir. Charlie Chaplin)
In this classic silent film Charlie Chaplin portrays a fastidious hobo who falls in love with a girl whom he has rescued from robbers. She takes him home to work on the farm owned by her father. Pathos and comedy are interwoven as Charlie falls in love with her and plans to propose marriage but returns to the road when her fiancé arrives.
Curator Biography:
Stephen Parr’s programs have explored the erotic underbelly of sex-in-cinema (The Subject is Sex), the offbeat and bizarre (Oddities Beyond Belief), the pervasive effects of propaganda (Historical/Hysterical?) and oddities from his archives (Strange Sinema). He is the director of Oddball Films, a stock film company and the San Francisco Media Archive (www.sfm.org), a non-profit archive that preserves culturally significant films. He is a co-founder of Other Cinema DVD and a member of the Association of Moving Archivists (AMIA) where he is a frequent presenter.
About Oddball Films
Oddball Films is a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like The Nice Guys and Milk, documentaries like The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Silicon Valley, Kurt Cobain: The Montage of Heck, television programs like Transparent and Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world. To search through 20,000 clips of eclectic footage, visit our website atoddballfilms.com.
Our screenings are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educational films, feature films, movie trailers, medical, industrial military, news out-takes and every genre in between. We’re actively working to present rarely screened genres of cinema as well as avant-garde and ethno-cultural documentaries, which expand the boundaries of cinema. Oddball Films is the largest film archive in Northern California and one of the most unusual private collections in the US. We invite you to join us in our weekly offerings of offbeat cinema.
Oddball Films is a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like The Nice Guys and Milk, documentaries like The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Silicon Valley, Kurt Cobain: The Montage of Heck, television programs like Transparent and Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world. To search through 20,000 clips of eclectic footage, visit our website atoddballfilms.com.
Our screenings are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educational films, feature films, movie trailers, medical, industrial military, news out-takes and every genre in between. We’re actively working to present rarely screened genres of cinema as well as avant-garde and ethno-cultural documentaries, which expand the boundaries of cinema. Oddball Films is the largest film archive in Northern California and one of the most unusual private collections in the US. We invite you to join us in our weekly offerings of offbeat cinema.