Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Dynamic Duos

Director: Multiple Dirs

1950 / 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 more than 25 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 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 June with Dynamic Duos, a selection of vintage animated shorts featuring fun and sometimes dysfunctional character team-ups! Come enjoy an ex-flapper organizing a jazzed-up house party for her elderly friend; a cartoon cat helping a live-action girl run an egg farm; two birds invading a cranky old farmer’s homestead; a cat and mouse’s big clash at the circus; a couple of bachelors failing at a babysitting gig; and other amusing tales. Spanning the 1920s through the ’50s, this assortment showcases classic characters such as Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, Betty Boop and Grampy, Mutt and Jeff, the original Tom and Jerry (humans!); Herman and Katnip, Heckle and Jeckle, Alice and Julius, Tweety and Sylvester, and others.

Featuring introduction and Q&A with Stathes.

Part of Screen Time at Metrograph