Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Down on the Farm
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Director: Multiple Dirs
2024 / 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 Metrograph in mid-June with Down on the Farm, a selection of vintage animated shorts exploring country life among funny barnyard animals. Come enjoy a live action little human girl's adventure among the cows and chickens; a famous cartoon rabbit's follies with a mechanical cow; an unnaturally large and clumsy duckling's unlikely heroism; a beloved wise-cracking sailor visiting his girlfriend's new farm; and more. Spanning the 1920s through to the ’50s, this assortment showcases classic characters such as Alice in Cartoonland, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Popeye, Baby Huey, Farmer Alfalfa, and others.
Introduction and Q&A with curator Tommy Stathes on Saturday, June 15th
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