Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Winter Wonderlands

2022 / 60min / 16mm

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons is New York City’s prime theatrical showcase of early and classic animated cartoons, shown in vintage 16mm film prints from the personal archives of historian Tommy José Stathes. Beginning over 20 years ago as a casual effort to find and see early cartoons that were unavailable on home video, Stathes’s collection has grown to become perhaps one of the largest of its kind. It includes many titles and “orphan films” that are difficult to access or view elsewhere.

Stathes joins us in January with Winter Wonderlands, a selection of early cartoon films featuring frigid frolics in beautifully icy snowscapes. Enjoy some animated snowball fights, snowman building, ice skating, and all sorts of other funny deep freezes. Spanning the 1920s through the ’50s, this assortment showcases classic characters such as Betty Boop, Frosty the Snowman, Mutt and Jeff, Dinky Doodle, Woody Woodpecker, and more.