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Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
With the release of Richard Linklatter's feature-length cartoon version of a Philip K. Dick novel, I thought it a good opportunity to turn, however briefly, to what is still, to me, the gold standard in animated cinema.
People who apply the term 'Surreal' to films produced in the early 30s by Max and Dave Fleischer are really missing the point. Indeed there are elements that correspond to that swell in the tidepool of European formalism, but to say that it's a defining characteristic (or even an important one) is to, in the same breath, dismiss everything that made their work so unique.
As is plain in even a gem as dark as their 1931 film Bimbo's Initiation, the Fleischers were not just following the aesthetic footprints of Old World models, they were running on the freedom granted them by the knowledge that the only restraint on their vision was the limits of their ability. Nothing else accounts for the exhilaration in the center of their finest work. This was a time when popular art accomodated the strange and the unkempt and the lurid and the beautiful far more easily than any point since, a circumstance that brought forth the wild ether in which something like 'Bimbo's Initiation' could be created.
There's more joy and horror in thses seven minutes than in all the latter-day cartoon emanations of the last quarter-century.
Tom Sutpen
Length: 378
Rating: 4.70 (85 ratings)
Tags: Animated Cinema Fleischer Brothers Bimbo
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Die 3 Groschenoper: Ernst Busch "Moritatsong" 1931
Weakened version of the opera. For a long time unobtainable, since the fall of the DDR again in the circuit. Lotte Lenya plays Jenny instead of the part of Polly on the stage so she sings only one song in this film. Carola Neher is Polly in the film and Valeska Gert is Mrs Peachum
Length: 150
Rating: 4.90 (150 ratings)
Tags: Bertold Brecht Kurt Weill Die DreiGroschenoper 1930 Moritatsong Pabst Ernst Busch footage
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The Man Who Made A Monster - Frankenstein, 1931
The tale of Frankenstein showing the trials and tribulations of the man and his monster from the 1931 classic. Directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff and Colin Clive.
Length: 602
Rating: 5.00 (36 ratings)
Tags: Frankenstein 1931 boris karloff colin clive james whale
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Frankenstein (1931) part 1
Here's first part of the movie Frankenstein, which was directed in 1931 by James Whale. Colin Clive as Dr Frankenstein and Boris Karloff. One of the greatest horror movies ever made - first part.
Length: 593
Rating: 5.00 (30 ratings)
Tags: Frankenstein James Whale Boris Karloff
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Sir Edward Elgar, 1931 "Land of hope & glory"
rare view of the great old man conducting his own composition with the London Symfony Orchestra at His Master's Voice Studio
Length: 182
Rating: 4.90 (128 ratings)
Tags: elgar land of hope and glory 1930's
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Gandhi Speaks, Simla 1931
Gandhi, between long jail terms, visits Viceroy Lord Irwin for an inconclusive meeting in Simla on April 17, 1931. This was originally a silent newsreel. Gandhi's voice is from October 1931, when his voice was recorded on a 78 rpm record. The complete 6 minute "My Spiritual Message" is at http://www.harappa.com/gandhi.html
Length: 34
Rating: 4.80 (126 ratings)
Tags: Gandhi India Simla British Raj
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Laurel & Hardy-The Dentist 1931
Laurel & Hardy-The Dentist 1931
This is a short I picked up off the Internet
Stan Has A toothache & goes to Dentist, But Some how Ollies Tooth comes Out!!!
Kod:
http://rapidshare.com/files/9669769/LH-Dentist.rar
Pass geop
Length: 319
Rating: 4.80 (347 ratings)
Tags: Laurel & Hardy-The Dentist 1931
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