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Event: “Son of Trailer Trash: A to B to Z Movie Trailers”. Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present a screening or rare B-Movie, blockbuster, “Art” film, Film Noir and vintage XXX trailers spanning form the 1940’s to the late 1970’s. 80% of these films sank without a trace, but their garish promotional trailers live on in the massive archives of Oddball Films. Plus, another reel of censored feature film clips (from a Los Angeles TV station): all the “good” bits on one reel, resulting in a bizarre, elliptical, and totally non-sequitur viewing experience. And a short educational film from 1959 entitled “We Live in a Trailer”. An evening tailored for the Attention Deficit Disordered!
Date: Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at 8:30PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco 94110
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or info@oddballfilm.com

“Son of Trailer Trash”
A to B to Z Movie Trailers from the 1940’s to 1970’s Screens at Oddball Films

On Saturday, October 3rd, Guest Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening rare B-Movie, Art Film, Film Noir and XXX film trailers, from the 1940’s to the late 1970’s. Ranging from 30 seconds to several minutes in length, these promotional shorts for coming attractions were often much more entertaining than the features they promote.

In addition, a new reel of censored film clips will be presented as found. Marked “Mandatory Edits” and compiled presumably by the editor at the big Los Angeles TV station where this reel originated, these feature film clips were apparently deemed too violent, sexual, suggestive or shocking to be shown on TV. Jarring edits take you from the Civil War to WWII to the old West, to Ancient times and back, and from color to B &W. See flaming arrows in the chest, suggestive undergarments, bloody stumps, heaving breasts, and so much more! See Gary Cooper, Buddy Greco, Burt Lancaster, Charo, and a cast of thousands together in the boldest film that never was! Showtime is 8:30PM and admission is $10.00. Seating is limited so RSVP is preferred to: info@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117.

Trailers Include (but not limited to):

Gnome Mobile; Crash; Bad Georgia Road; Hustle; Kentucky Fried Movie; Twilight Last Gleaming; All the President’s Men; A Small Town in Texas; Gray Eagle; Billy Jack; Carrie; Breaker Breaker; Logan’s Run; Bad News Bears Go To Japan; Almost Summer; The Enforcer; Black Sunday; Satan’s Cheerleaders; Viva Knievel; The Inheritance; Phantasm; The Exorcist; Halloween; Dawn of the Dead; Take All of Me; It’s Alive; Cinderella; Mac Arthur; Black Oak Conspiracy; Enter the Dragon; The Gumball Rally; Starship Invasions; One on One; Oh God; Piece of the Action; Smokey and the Bandit; Exorcist II.: The Heretic; Rabbit Test; Outlaw Blues; Outlaw Josie Wales; Murder By Death; Black ; Chinatown Squad; To L.A. Dangerous Game; Diamond Frontier; The Egg and I; Enemy Agent; Ever Since Venus; Family Honeymoon; Fugitive From Prison Camp; The Gentleman From Nowhere; Harmon of Michigan; Horror Island; Invisible Agent; Island Of Doomed Men; It Ain’t Hay; It Can’t Last Forever; It Started With Eve; King of the Wild Horses; Kiss The Blood Off My Hands; Larceny; The Man Who Cried Wolf; The Man Who Lived Twice; Murder in the Blue Room; Cool Hand Luke; Klute; American Graffiti; Easy Rider; The American Dream; The Confession; The Clowns; Buffalo Bill and the Indian; Little Big Man; W.R.-Mysteries of the Organism; New York Erotic Film Festival; Sounder; Play It Again, Sam; The Andromeda Strain; The Boy Friend; Harry and Tonto; Scenes From a Marriage; Slaughterhouse-Five; The Cars that Eat People; The Cheerleaders; The First Nudie Musical; The Omen; The Paper Chase; Infa Man; Deathsport; Blue Collar; Up in Smoke; Goin’ Sounth; King of the Gypsies; The Street Fighter; The Warriors; Meatballs; Manson; Burn, Witch, Burn!; Last Man On Earth; Battle Beyond the Sun; The Brain That Wouldn’t Die: The Time Travelers and much more!!
Plus! More “Mandatory Edits” (color, B&W, c.1950-1965)
Wild compilation of violent, sexual and otherwise “not ready for primetime viewing” film clips, edited into one bizarre reel. It’s as if William Burroughs got into the Saturday afternoon TV-movie vault and applied his “cut-up technique”.

And! “We Live in A Trailer” (color, 1959)
Back by popular demand: trailer-trash in training.

Fri Oct 2-Soul/Food SF Food Bank Benefit at Gallery 16
Fri Oct 9-India Films: Photo Wallahs
Sat Oct 10 – Weirdsville 7 (Oddities from the Archives)
Fri Oct 16 – Crazy Cats 2: The Cat Came Back (Cat films- all new program)
Sat Oct 17- Home Movie Day, Strange Sinema- “World’s Strangest Home Movies”
Fri Oct 23-Sonic Oddities Live
Fri Oct 30-Rock n’ Roll at the Movies
Sat Oct 31st Terror Noir- The House on Telegraph Hill in SF + Halloween Wet Dream

About Oddball Films
Oddball films is the film component of Oddball Film+Video, a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like Milk, documentaries like The Summer of Love, television programs like Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world.
Our films are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educationals, 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.

Event: “Lost Animation” Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of rarely screened classics and obscurities of world animation. A couple of these have made it to DVD on hard to find collections; most are quite scarce- despite scads of accolades and a few Oscar nods! Films include: “Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom”, Academy Award-winning cartoon-modern classic; “The Sweater”, charming Canadian animation narrated by novelist Roch Carrier; “Women of the World”, by Faith Hubley; “The Critic”, hilarious Ernest Pintoff short with Mel Brooks!; “Hunger”, brilliant and disturbing early computer animation; “Rhinoceros”, a little masterpiece from Poland’s Jan Lenica; “Spacy”, hypnotic experimental rarity by Takashi Ito; “My Financial Career”, by Stephen Leacock; “Pan-tele-tron”, 1957 BAFTA Award winner from England; and more TBA!
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 8:30PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco 94110
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or info@oddballfilm.com

“Lost Animation”
Screens at Oddball Films

On Saturday, September 26, Guest Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of rarely screened animated shorts- both classics and obscurities. Several of these shorts won or were nominated for Academy Awards and all showcase inventive, wild imagination- from the simplest line drawings, to mid-century modern classics, obtuse international favorites, to avant-garde treasures.
Show time is 8:30PM and admission is $10.00. Seating is limited so RSVP is preferred to: info@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117.

Films Include:

“Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom” (Color, 1953)
Academy Award winner in stunning Technicolor- this short was originally released in theaters as part of the “Adventures in Music” educational series. Directed by the brilliant Ward Kimball, this is a classic of mid-century cartoon design and has been ranked one of the top 50 greatest cartoons.

“The Sweater” (Color, 1980)
Wonderful coming of age/mortified youth yarn written and narrated by Canadian novelist Roch Carrier about his trials when he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey sweater rather than his favorite, rival team the Canadiens. The story is widely considered an allegory for the linguistic and cultural tensions between anglophone and francophone Canadians, and is an essential classic of Canadian literature (it is even featured on the back of the Candian $5 bill). A Leonard Maltin favorite, the animation is by Sheldon Cohen.

“Women Of the World (WOW)” (Color, 1975)
Wife and partner of animator John Hubley (sharing several Oscars), Faith Hubley began work on Women of the World as her first solo project (with help from other women in her circle, including daughter Georgia (drummer/vocalist for Yo La Tengo). An artistic history of the world from a feminist point of view.

“The Critic” (Color, 1963)
Another Oscar winner form the great Ernie Pintoff- the “Critic is Mel Brooks, sitting in a movie theater. Loudly describing/deriding what he seeds on the screen (a spoof of a Norman McLaren-styled animation). Hee-larious.

“Hunger” (Color, 1974)
Brilliant, disturbing, landmark early computer animation by Peter Foldes. Characters morph and cannibalize in this mesmerizing Pop Art short, with a super cool soundtrack by Pierre Brault. A must see.

“Rhinoceros” (Color, 1963)
From the master Polish illustrator and animator Jan Lenica, Rhinoceros borrows the title and spirit of lunatic despair and pessimistic dystopia from the Ionesco play. An odd barrage of cutouts and line drawing.

“Spacy” (Color, 1980-81)
Hypnotic avant-garde rarity by Takashi Ito. This experimental stop-motion film takes place in a gymnasium: we approach a picture on a frame, which turns out to be a picture of the gymnasium. We enter the picture and approach another frame, which turns out to be a picture of… and so on. A mesmerizing electronic soundtrack completes this trance-inducing meditation on time and space.

“My Financial Career” (Color, 1962)
Based on Stephen Leacock’s witty account of a young man’s first brush with banking. When he tries to make his deposit, he is so intimidated by the institution that nothing he says comes out right. Another great example of mid-century animation.

“Pan-tele-tron” (Technicolor, 1957)
Animated promotional film made for the Phillips Corporation stunningly illustrates the history of telecommunications with humor and panache. Produced by Pearl and Dean (with animation from the great Vera Linnecar), this one the BAFTA award in 1957.

PLUS- Always a surprise short or two!

Some Upcoming Programs:
Saturday, Oct. 3 – “Son of Trailer Trash” (A night of film trailers)
Sat., Oct. 10 – “Weirdsville 7” (Oddities from the Archives)
Fri., Oct. 16 – “Crazy Cats 2: The Cat Came Back” (Cat films- all new program)

About Oddball Films
Oddball films is the film component of Oddball Film+Video, a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like Milk, documentaries like The Summer of Love, television programs like Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world.
Our films are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educationals, 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.

Event: “SOUL/FOOD!: A Night of Live Music, Vintage Vinyl and Rare Films To Benefit the San Francisco Food Bank.” Featuring live soul music with Marc & The Casuals, Ron Silva & The Monarchs, and Tommy Guerrero; rare 16mm soul films presented by Oddball Films; and vintage soul sounds on original vinyl with DJ Chas Gaudi, all amidst the art at the spacious Gallery 16 in San Francisco’s Soma District.
Date: Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 7:00PM
Venue: Gallery 16, 501 3rd St., San Francisco, CA 94107
Admission: $10.00-20.00 Sliding Scale Donation

“SOUL/FOOD!”
A Night of Live Music, Vintage Vinyl and Rare Films To Benefit the San Francisco Food Bank

On Friday, October 2nd, Marc Capelle, Griff Williams/Gallery 16 and Oddball Films present a soul spectacular to benefit the San Francisco Food Bank, to be held at the spacious Gallery 16 in San Francisco’s Soma District.

Featuring live music with Marc & The Casuals (with longtime Virgil Shaw and American Music Club pianist Marc Capelle), Ron Silva & The Monarchs (leader Silva led cult favorites The Crawdaddys and The Nashville Ramblers) and Tommy Guerrero (eclectic and soulful guitarist/songwriter).

Oddball Films will be projecting a number of rare 16mm films featuring performances by James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Eddie Kendricks,  Lou Rawls, Isaac Hayes, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Sly and the Family Stone, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Cannonball Adderley, and more plus a few surprises.  Full descriptions below.

DJ Chas Gaudi (Shellac Shack) will be spinning original 1960’s soul and  R&B vinyl.

Doors at 7:00PM and admission is a suggested donation of $10.00-20.00.  For further info, please email info@oddballfilm.com or call 415-558-8117.

Beneficiary

The San Francisco Food Bank
The San Francisco Food Bank is the critical link between food and people. They provide food to over 22,000 households each week through 400+ non-profit partners.

http://www.sffoodbank.org/

The Bands:

Marc & The Casuals
The seldom seen, but often recorded- Marc and the Casuals are a groovy yet disciplined deep soul/pop instrumental combo. Lead by longtime Virgil Shaw and American Music Club pianist, Marc Capelle, this all-star interplanetary 21st century Wrecking Crew features some of the Bay Area’s finest musical minds and dressers.

http://www.tarmacmusic.com/bio.htm

Ron Silva & The Monarchs
Ron Silva possesses one of the finest and truly soulful voices on the West Coast.  He first found fame with The Crawdaddys, then with The Nashville Ramblers, and in more recent years with The Monarchs.  His backing group consists of several solid experienced California musicians who have played with such groups as The Nick Rossi Set, The Royal Crown Revue, The Loved Ones, The Kinetics, Jump With Joey, and Beulah.  They have an individual, stylish take on classic Rhythm and Blues which has recently experienced a worldwide resurgence thanks to people like Sharon Jones, James Hunter, Eli “Paperboy” Reed, and Amy Winehouse.  Like many of these contemporaries, The Monarchs go straight to the source for inspiration: piles of dusty 45s on labels as well known as Stax and as obscure as Little Star.  Put it all very simply…they are the REAL DEAL!

http://www.myspace.com/ronsilvaandthemonarchs

Tommy Guerrero & Special Guests
Soulful guitarist and songwriter Tommy Guerrero has a number of critically acclaimed albums, EPs, and singles combining various types of music from rock, rap, funk, soul, and jazz. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine named Guerrero’s third studio album, Soul Food Taqueria (2003), #2 on its 2003 “Best of” list.

http://www.tommyguerrero.com/

The Films:

“James Brown- The Man” (Color, 1967)
Rarely seen documentary on the man, his career and his philosophy.  From his own background as a drifter and a convict to his many successful enterprises- from his “James Brown’s Golden Platter” soul food restaurants to his Brown and Black trading stamp venture, this film paints a portrait of Brown as Black activist and community leader.  Riveting performance footage is interspersed with Brown’s message to the youth: “Don’t Hate: Communicate”.

“Aretha Franklin-Soul Singer” (Color, 1968)
Directed by Stephen Fleischman “Aretha…” showcases the electrifying Franklin singing gospel in a Detroit Church, rehearsing in the recording studio with her band, performing live in concert and on the Detroit television dance party program “Swing Time”.  Song highlights include “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman”, “Chain of Fools” and of course “Respect”.  This well-made documentary features some very good live segments of Aretha in performance, receiving an award from Rev. Martin Luther King and onstage with her backup singers and dancers.

“Black Music in America: From Then Till Now” (Color, 1971)
This tremendous educational documentary from the mid-1970′s examines the priceless contributions of African-Americans to musical heritage, so closely tied to their unique history in the United States.  Beginning with the genius Louis Armstrong’s triumphant return to Ghana in the late 1950′s, we trace the evolution of music from West Africa to the emerging nation. Features incredible clips of filmed performances by Mahalia Jackson, Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, and Duke Ellington.  Contemporary musicians such as Nina Simone, BB King, Cannonball Adderley (w/ Joe Zawinul – Mercy, Mercy, Mercy), and Sly & the Family Stone punctuate the memory of the past, the spontaneity of the moment and determination for the future.

Black Music in America: The 70s (Color, 1979)
Isaac Hayes and Dionne Warwick take the viewer on a musical excursion through the world of Black music of the 1970′s. From the Detroit sound of Diana Ross to the disco beat of Donna Summer, the film follows the progression of Motown in the 70s with interviews featuring Quincy Jones and Smokey Robinson and a cavalcade of musical clips featuring Earth, Wind and Fire, Barry White, Donna Summer, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Kahn, Parliament, Funkadelic, The Village People, Bob Marley, Grace Jones, Miles Davis a mind-blowing effects-laden video clip of the Jacksons and a Soul Train load of clips more!

“Eddie Kendricks” (Color, 1973)
Punchy promo film produced by Motown Records featuring the funky former singer of the Temptations in action as well as interviews with Smokey Robinson and Mary Wells of the Supremes and a live performance of Keep on Truckin’.

Plus! Clips and commercials featuring Lou Rawls, Isaac Hayes, Lenny Welch and Timmie “Oh Yeah” Rogers and more!

About Oddball Films
Oddball films is the film component of Oddball Film+Video, a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like Milk, documentaries like The Summer of Love, television programs like Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world.
Our films are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educationals, 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.

About DJ Chas Gaudi
Pete Gowdy (aka DJ Chas Gaudi) is host of San Francisco’s Shellac Shack, a popular weekly 78 rpm and soul 45 party and a DJ specializing in vintage sounds: soul, jazz, country, punk and new wave.  He is also a guest curator at Oddball Films.

About Griff Williams/Gallery 16
Griff Williams is an artist, curator, educator and owner of Gallery 16 and Urban Digital Color in San Francisco. His background as an artist and art advocate has taken many forms. He has worked in Washington D.C., lobbying Congress on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as an art educator at schools and Universities on both coasts.  Their exhibition program involves artists working in a wide range of media exploring a variety of aesthetic, conceptual, and technological issues.  Gallery 16 to date has presented of over 180 exhibitions involving 235 artists. Griff has organized and instructed over 40 artist workshops focusing on artists using contemporary media.

Event: “Friday On My Mind: Beat Group & British Invasion on Film” Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of 1960’s beat groups on rare16mm film; Australia’s The Easybeats, the Dave Clark 5, and trove of Beatl*s footage to feast your eyes and ears upon. Highlights include: The truly rare “Easy Come, Easy Go With The Easybeats”; “A Mod Odyssey”, documenting the making of Yellow Submarine; “ “The Dave Clark 5”, a color Warner-Pathé newsreel; “The Beatl*s Come To Town”, another Warner-Pathé newsreel in color and widescreen, “Braverman’s Condensed Cream of Beatl*s” and “The Sixties”, plus lots more Beatl*s newsreel footage and a few surprises! Back to the Sixties!!
Date: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 8:30PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco 94110
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or info@oddballfilm.com

“Friday On My Mind”
Beat Group & British Invasion on Film
Screens at Oddball Films

On Friday, September 18, Guest Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of rare films showcasing some of the best and brightest of the British Invasion and Beat Groups of the 1960’s. Youtube is great, but nothing compared to original celluloid and the silver screen! Rare newsreels featuring The Beatl*s, The Dave Clark 5, and a “lost” film of the Australian mod-beat-powerpop The Easybeats, along with a kinestatic short history of the decade (Charles Braverman’s The Sixties). It’s gonna be a twistin’, stompin’, shimmy a go-go shindig!
Showtime is 8:30PM and admission is $10.00. Seating is limited so RSVP is preferred to: info@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117.

Films Include:

“Easy Come, East Go With The Easybeats” (B&W, 1967)
Beyond rare film focused on the great Australian Beat combo the Easybeats during their time in England. Director Peter Clifton went on to make the Led Zeppelin film The Song Remains The Same and many other music films and videos, but this was his first. Apparently this film has been lost since 1970, and neither Clifton nor Producer Glen Baker has been able to track it down. Oddball’s copy is mostly intact, with some great performances (alas- lip synced), screaming fans, in the studio working on the song “Heaven and Hell”, lots of goofing, and pre-MTV “videos” of “Who’ll Be The One”, “Loch Lomond” (unreleased), “Saturday Night”, and their smash hit “Friday On My Mind”. The film was originally released with the whimsical title “Somewhere Between Heaven and Woolworths”, then changed to the more prosaic Easy Come, Easy Go. A must see for all Easybeats fans!!

“The Beatl*s Come To Town” (Color, 1963, Techniscope)
Warner- Pathé produced newsreel short of the Beatl*s with fans, hamming it up and performing “She Loves You” and “Twist and Shout” on stage. Beautiful Technicolor and shot in widescreen Techniscope- will be shown utilizing our new Cinemascope lens.

“The Dave Clark 5” (Color, 1964)
Following the success of their special Beatles short, Warner- Pathé jumped on the Tottenham-based Dave Clark 5 as their main rival (hard to believe today). More sumptious color and fan pandemonium as the 5 perform “Bits and Pieces” and “Glad All Over”. Great stuff, but Tottenham and the DC5 didn’t stand a chance against Liverpool and the Fab Four.

“A Mod Odyssey” (b+w, 1968)
Short promotional film for Yellow Submarine has behind the scenes footage offering insight to its production and lysergic inspiration. Plenty of Beatl*s footage, hamming it up per usual.

“Braverman’s Condensed Cream of Beatl*s” (color, 1973)
Oscar-winning short traces the history of the Beatl*s utilizing a fast moving collage of stills, clips, art and album covers edited to the beat of their brilliant music. This non-narrative film showcases the flip, exuberant 60s to the end of the sober, socially conscious decade as we watch airport mob scenes, madcap press conferences, records, concerts, books, posters and movies, all tumble past in a dizzy spasm of bliss.

“The Sixties” (color, 1970)
Another Charles Braverman production that utilizes the kinestatic technique to profile the decade that produced the Beatles and the British Invasion (and some less savory things like the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon). Made in 1970 without the benefit of decades of hindsight, but also without much revisionism.

Plus much, MUCH more TBA at showtime!!

Bonus: Paul is Dead – TURN ME ON DEAD MAN Listen to the Beatl*s “Revolution 9” played backwards in its entirety: http://kingtet.com/number9.htm

Some Upcoming Programs:
Saturday, Sept. 26 – “Lost Animation” (An occasional series, from obscure to classic)
Saturday, Oct. 3 – “Son of Trailer Trash” (A night of film trailers)
Sat., Oct. 10 – “Weirdsville 7” (Oddities from the Archives)
Fri., Oct. 16 – “Crazy Cats 2: The Cat Came Back” (Cat films- all new program)

Event: “Weirdsville: Oddities from the Archives”.  Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of rare, weird and some highly entertaining 16mm shorts, movie trailers and commercials culled from the 50,000+ archive at Oddball Films.  This month’s highlights include: “Mystery in The Kitchen”, Canadian housewives in 1958; “Surfboard Rhythm”, early surfing and pinup girls form 1947!; “Master in Drag”, Mr. Ed and a crossdressed Wilbur; “Bullet On Wheels”, midget car racing; “Mountain Music”; truly bizarre claymation; “Accentuate the Positive”, Bing Crosby in blackface; “Hot Dog: Sardines”, the world sardine packing contest;  plus movie trailers and commercials straight out of Weirdsville!
Date: Friday, September 11, 2009 at 8:30PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco 94110
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or info@oddballfilm.com

“Weirdsville”
Oddities From The Archives
Screens at Oddball Films

On Friday, September 11, Guest Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of the strange, the bizarre, and the sometimes baffling short films, commercials and trailers from deep within the Oddball archive. These “found” films surface in the process of research for other programs: too good to languish on the shelves, they demand to be screened!  Special note: Oddball has acquired several new massive collections of film. Tonight’s program is a taste of the tip of the iceberg! Come see ‘em before they get buried in the archive!
Weirdsville is a monthly companion program to the Strange Sinema series.  Showtime is 8:30PM and admission is $10.00.  Seating is limited so RSVP is preferred to:  info@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117.

Highlights Include:

Mystery in the Kitchen (Color, 1958)
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, this film aimed at housewives uses satire and humor to teach proper nutrition and good eating habits.  Awesome mid-century domestic scenes from our neighbors to the North.

Mountain Music (Color, 1975)
Truly bizarre claymation hippie music concert out in the sticks.  This is a total freakout, no doubt the result of massive amounts of drug ingestion.  Looks real if you squint.

Master in Drag (b+w, 1961)
Clip from the Mister Ed TV show.  Wilbur dresses in drag to rescue Mr. Ed from a sorority house.  Hijinx ensue.

Bullet On Wheels (b+w, 1951)
Midget car racing action with a minor plotline involving the “phantom racer”, a lone-ranger masked driver who makes headlines all up and down the California coast for his daring-do.  Mostly just an excuse for some hair-raising action in extremely fast and dangerous open cockpit racing cars.

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive (b+w, 1944)
Bing Crosby and Sonny Tufts introduce what would become a standard in this clip from the 1944 patriotic film Here Come The Waves.  Alas, they are in blackface, which is why this censored clip (from a Los Angeles TV station) is rarely seen.

Surfboard Rhythm (b+w, 1947)
Amazing early surfing and pinup girl film shot in and around Santa Monica for MGM.  Pete Smith narrates in his trademark wry, bemused style.

Hot Dog: Where Do Sardines Come From? (Color, 1972)
Shows the ladies in the cannery working their magic and the World Championship Sardine Packing Contest (soon to be on ESPN).  Jonathan Winters, Jo Anne Worley and Woody Allen sit this one out…

PLUS- Movie trailers and commercials straight out of Weirdsville!