STOP MOTION MATINEE

Approx. 90 min.

$19.95 DVD

  

Long before Gumby, long before Gromit came Chip, Duffy, and Wild Willie—the first madcap models in animation history! See the early work of King Kong animator Willis O'Brien. Discover the original clayboys and toy stories. Return with us to a simpler time when furniture walked and bugs were adulterers (wait a minute...simpler?). It's a Stop Motion Matinee!

Includes:
The Automatic Moving Company (Roméo Bossetti, 1912)
Furniture invades a house by itself.

Revenge of the Kinematograph Cameraman (Ladislaw Starewicz, 1912)
Animated insects cheat on each other until Mrs. Beetle's moviemaker lover catches Mr. Beetle in the act.

The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (Willis O'Brien, 1917)
Theophilus, Duke, and Steve are three cavemen wooing beautiful Araminta Rockface. But they've reckoned without Wild Willie—the missing link and terror of the primeval countryside!

  


Chip in the Land of Whiz (Kinex, 1929; extended version)
Follow Chip the Wooden Man on adventures with the toy world's blocky brontosaurs.

Creation (Willis O'Brien, 1931)
O'Brien's unfinished pre-KING KONG project was to have shown a submarine crew's encounter with an island of dangerous dinos. This triceratops test reel is all that came to fruition.

The Mascot (Ladislaw Starewicz, 1933)
This legendary extended-length featurette finds cuddly doggie Duffy literally "going through Hell" to cure his sick mistress. You've never seen a party like the Devil's Ball.

A joint venture with Tom Stathes' Cartoons On Film.

 

 

THE TOM STATHES HALLOWEEN CARTOON REEL

Approx. 90 min.

$19.95 DVD

  

Want to spend All Hallows' Eve with some frightfully old cartoons?

The Tom Stathes Halloween Cartoon Reel will raise the hair on your arms! So lock the doors, draw the curtains, grab some holy water, pop in this DVD and relax... if you can!

First up are ultra-rare shorts from the silent era. See Krazy Kat face The Awful Spook (1921). Watch how Felix The Ghost Breaker (1923) feigns bravery, with Max Fleischer following suit in Ko-Ko’s Haunted House (1928). See ghostly Klansmen turn dogs into sausages in Alice's Mysterious Mystery (1926), an early Walt Disney production.

These films are presented silent, without any musical accompaniment - so you can listen for spirits creeping around your home!

Favorite sound cartoons follow next. Waffles and Don are stuck on a Haunted Ship (1930) while Tom and Jerry (humans, not the cat and mouse!) exclaim Wot A Night (1931) in two Van Beuren Studios productions. Vulcan Entertains (1934) Willie Whopper in Hell - and then it's time to meet Casper, the Friendly Ghost (1945).

Bonus films include a color stop-motion short and Goofy Ghosts (1928), a two-reel Al Christie Comedy with Jimmie Adams.

The films in this set are not yet restored, presented as they have been found.

Color/Black and White

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