Produced in 1950.
Little Audrey makes a gingerbread man, then takes a nap and dreams that the Gingerbread Man goes to cakeland where he tries to marry his sweetheart, Angel Cake. But Devil Food Cake interferes and carries off the bride. Cop Cakes and Animal Crackers come to the rescue. Animation by G. Germanetti. Story by Bill Turner and Larry Riley. Scenics by Robert Little. Music by Winston Sharples.
Off and on during the 1950s, the Calvin Company employed a young director named Robert Altman who had ambitions to leave them and become a Hollywood filmmaker. He was directing TV episodics in LA at the time "Your Name Here" may have been produced, but the people who did it certainly seem to have felt his wry influence back in Kansas City.
The Calvin Workshop, probably the leading industrial film producer in the nation back in the 40s and 50s, occasionally produced satiric in-house parodies, which would be featured at company get-togethers. Nothing racy, mind you, just a little something to wink at the viewer and say "Ridiculous-- isn't it?"
Of course, since the production of these gems invariably used the same production staff, cast and crew involved in the company's other projects, the effect of viewing one is delightfully... surreal.
"Your Name Here" is a somewhat loopy take on the budgetary pressures that were always present when dealing with industrial clients, which the company proposes to eliminate through the development of an "all-purpose" [read: generic] business film. The scary part is, the finished product is just good enough that someone might have taken them up on it!
Remember-- "You are about to witness history in the making!!"
https://archive.org/details/ViciousC1964 = Vicious Circle, or What Are We Trying to Do?, The (ca. 1964)
http://www.prelinger.com/ = The Prelinger Archives
"Our House" was designed and animated by students 12 to 15 years old, and originated entirely on flipbooks.
"Our House" Father wears his Sunday best Mother's tired she needs a rest The kids are playing up downstairs Sister's sighing in her sleep Brother's got a date to keep He can't hang around Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our Our house it has a crowd There's always something happening And it's usually quite loud Our mum she's so house-proud Nothing ever slows her down And a mess is not allowed Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our Our house, in the middle of our street (Something tells you) (That you've got to get away from it) Our house, in the middle of our Father gets up late for work Mother has to iron his shirt Then she sends the kids to school Sees them off with a small kiss She's the one they're going to miss In lots of ways [Instrumental Interlude] Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our I remember way back then when Everything was true and when We would have such a very good time Such a fine time Such a happy time And I remember how we'd play Simply waste the day away Then we'd say Nothing would come between us Two dreamers Father wears his Sunday best Mother's tired she needs a rest The kids are playing up downstairs Sister's sighing in her sleep Brother's got a date to keep He can't hang around Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our Our house, was our castle and our keep Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, that was where we used to sleep Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, in the middle of our street
1980 - A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to a new city with her child, trying to build her life again. She joins the choir of a local church but has some personality conflicts with the choirmaster (John Houseman), a curmudgeonly old gentleman who will accept nothing but perfection from his group. As Christmas approaches the choir practices for the big show and the director pushes them all to their emotional limits. - IMDB Description
A sci fi movie that could only be made in Italy with entertaining bad science, lots of romantic schmaltz and the kind of low-budget FX we've grown to love. Just add tomato sauce. Lots of fun. Very good print too.
Japanese science fiction tokusatsu film released in January 1956 by Daiei, and was the first Japanese science fiction film to be produced in color.
Eegah (also known as Eegah: The Name Written in Blood) is a 1962 film starring Arch Hall, Jr., Arch Hall, Sr., Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel in the titular role. The film's notoriety was enhanced as a result of being featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and was said by many to be an all time worst film and one of the films listed in Michael Medved's book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
The complete CBS nuclear disaster preparation special. "I consider it essential that any showing of "A Day Called X" be followed immediately by a showing of the cult classic Don Johnson vehicle "A Boy and His Dog", based on the Harlan Ellison story." ~trilby1989
1975 science fiction film directed by L. Q. Jones, based on a 1969 cycle of narratives by science fiction author Harlan Ellison titled "A Boy and His Dog". The film tells the story of a boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood), who work together as a team in a post-apocalyptic world.
This blow-dried, double-knit polyester 70s warm-up for GoodFellas and The Sopranos was most likely inspired by Martin Scorsese's early hit Mean Streets (1973). It even features a couple of later Scorsese regulars - future Oscar winner (for GoodFellas) Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent, both playing a couple of local hoods. Has a bit of B movie charm, replete with gratuitous F-bombs and topless dancers and was most likely one of the last of the B drive-in exploitation features before the multiplexes replaced the drive-ins.
C.C. Ryder (Joe Namath) is a biker who rescues Ann McCalley (Ann-Margret) from a rape attempt by a gang of malevolent hippies. But gang-leader Moon (William Smith) seeks revenge for C.C.'s interference. The film also features singer Wayne Cochran and his band The C.C. Riders.
Dennie (Sally Field) has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover (David Carradine), and a beloved young sister (Lane Bradbury) who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process.
A Roy Rogers picture and made mostly for kids and as such is very good of kind, so we can suspend a lot of realistic details. When a mines proprietary shipping a load uranium is attacked Roy as an insurance investigator looking into the theft. He must prevent the thieves from taking off in a plane with the stolen uranium ore.
A scientist, a reporter and a repairman are accidentally transported to a prehistoric world in a parallel universe when they fall into the beam of the experiment during an earthquake aftershock. It's a cheaply made fantasy/adventure romp that doesn't take itself too seriously, as evidenced by the sound effects that fall somewhere between The Three Stooges and a Kung Fu flick. You'll have no trouble telling the good guys from the bad guys in this simple morality tale.
James Caan stars as Jud McGraw, a cowboy unjustly framed for a crime he didn't commit; he partners up with an ethically wronged Native American woman named Little Moon (Stefanie Powers). In response to the ills they have each suffered, the two set off to wreak vengeance on a small western town.
This 13.5 minute short tells the viewer what Civil Defense is preparing for in the event of nuclear war with the USSR. It then presents the most detailed information I've seen on the preparation of a Nevada nuclear test site, but very little about the aftermath. You'll see soldiers in trenches some distance from ground zero leave them after the blast and march through contaminated areas.
