Date: Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 at 8:00pm
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco
Admission: $10.00, Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilm.com or (415) 558-8117
Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com
Featuring:The Mole and the Car (Color, 1963)
Another adorable and stylish cartoon from Zdenek Miler's beloved Little Mole series. The little mole wakes up underground beneath a busy street. When he emerges from his tunnel, he sees all the bright shiny and speedy cars and dreams of having one for his very own. After a nasty little boy destroys his toy car and leaves it in the street, our rodent hero fixes her up and speeds off in his very own set of wheels.
Mr. Rossi Buys A Car (Color, 1966)
Part of Bruno Bozetto’s (Allegro Non Troppo) great series of psychedelic screwball shorts starring the “everyman” Mr. Rossi. Unbelievable animated hijinks with appropriately off kilter soundscore. Signor Rossi is in the market for his first car. After ridiculous bouts with bureaucracy, car salesmen, and rude motorists, he eventually loses his cool and goes on a high-speed road rage fueled terror spree throughout the city.Freeway Phobia (Color, 1964)
(Subtitled The Art Of Driving The Super Highway).
Hilarity naturally ensures when everyone’s favorite talking dog, Goofy, demonstrates how not to drive on the freeway. First, he is the overly timid driver, then the overly aggressive driver, and finally the inattentive driver, shaving or eating. In a dynamic mix of animation styles, Goofy demonstrates how NOT to merge on the freeway, drive with distractions, and basically cause every thinkable accident.
What On Earth! (Color, 1966)
If aliens looked at planet Earth from outer space, what would he or she see? In this film, automobiles are perceives as life forms – with particular habits and behaviors! See beautifully animated lines of cars, dancing figures and stoplights, and other objects dancing. This psychedelic simplified world of shapes and signs, emphasizes consumerism and the ways in which earthlings are being conditioned! Produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by Les Drew and Kaj Pindal.
Magic Highway, U.S.A. (Color, 1958, excerpt)
Live action, archival footage, culminating in stunningly beautiful mid-century animation from D*sney examines the past, present (circa 1958) and paleo-future of transportation (*note* a small portion of the end of this wonderful film has been lost no doubt to a hungry high school film projector).
“As father chooses the route in advance on a push-button selector, electronics take
over complete control. Progress can be accurately checked on a synchronized
scanning map. With no driving responsibility, the family relaxes together.
En route business conferences are conducted by television.”
Hot Rod Huckster (B+W, 1954)
Woody Woodpecker is driving down the city street singing a "screwy" driving song. Used car salesman Buzz Buzzard tries to interest Woody in buying a new car (after sabotaging the one he has). He shows him various cars but they all are utterly lacking in quality and leave a lot to be desired. After getting him to try a hot rod with a record player under the hood (playing a record of "hot rod sounds" which, alas, gets switched to "animal sounds" on the record's other side), Buzz comes up with the idea of rejuvenating Woody's old car and selling it to him at a vast price. Woody's response to this is to put Buzz through the "rejuvenating machine" where the buzzard gets a car built around him and is driven home by Woody!
Miss Esta Maude's Secret (Color, 1964)
A super chic 1960s rendering of a beloved children's book from W.T. Cummings about a school teacher's hidden need for speed. Her secret is a slick hot rod she speeds around in when nobody's looking.
Miss Esta Maude's Secret (Color, 1964)
A super chic 1960s rendering of a beloved children's book from W.T. Cummings about a school teacher's hidden need for speed. Her secret is a slick hot rod she speeds around in when nobody's looking.
Automania 2000 (Color, 1963)
A satyric tour-de-force, this prophetic and humorous film concerns the state of the world at the millennium. Uncannily accurate in its prediction, the film shows the result of technology gone mad. In the race to produce bigger and better cars we see how humanity adapts to life in a grid-locked world. One of the Halas & Batchelor Studio’s finest films, Automania 2000 was a prize winner all round the world, including an Oscar nomination and a British Academy Award.
Motor Mania (Color, 1950)
Goofy goes from a mild mannered dogman to a hot headed road-rager in this classic Di$ney educational short.
For the Early Birds:Otto the Auto in Buckle Up (Color, 1976)
A little girl doesn't want to put on her seat belt. Will she learn to do what's safe with the help of a talking car, an alien, some astronauts and her parents? Let's hope so!
Alexander and the Car With the Missing Headlight (Color, 1966)
Curator’s BiographyKat Shuchter is a graduate of UC Berkeley in Film Studies. She is a filmmaker, artist and esoteric film hoarder. She has helped program shows at the PFA, The Nuart and Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater and was crowned “Found Footage Queen” of Los Angeles, 2009. She has programmed over 250 shows at Oddball on everything from puberty primers to experimental animation.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.
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.
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.