Oddball Films Media
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Sep 8, 2016
The Goldilocks fairy tale gets a sexy twist in one segment from the nudie cutie series Bikini Girls (1949).
Sinderella (B+W & Color, 1962)
This amateur film produced by "Lorelei" is a faithful reenactment of the Brother's Grimm Cinderella... except with a handful of lovely drag queens playing all the parts. A rare document of the San Francisco drag scene in the early 60s, this gem is like a long-lost step sister to Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures. Don't miss the amazingly cheezy production values, awesome wigs, and high-handed bitch slapping that blows Di$ney right out of the water. Poor Sinderella's hair gets a fabulous makeover when she's transformed! In B+W and color.
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Little Red Riding Hoodlum (Color, 1962)
An insane tidbit of a homemade cartoon from the mind of a twelve year old. Little Red Riding Hood appears to be a naughty boy who takes bad things to his grandmother like "Jekyll and Hyde Juice" and "Self-Destroy Pills", frightens the wolf to death, then dies himself when what he thinks was a painted apple turns out to be a bomb. According to the AudioVisual inventory: "Animated film produced by 12-year-old student at Frederic Burk School. Second film, first sound film experiment."
This sensual adaptation of the old fairy story soon liberates its principals from their cute Disney-style forest and slaps them right in the middle of swanky Manhattan. Grandma's a nymphomaniac swinger, and her rustic cottage home a hip penthouse pad. Little Red has become a red-hot singer-stripper; the Wolf is a model of lupine lechery; and the forest is supplanted by a big-city nightclub as the enchanted place of forbidden sexuality. The Wolf tries to pull the old Red Riding Hood gag in order to meet up with Little Red, but Grandma has other ideas.
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Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarves (Robert Clampett, Color, 1943)
Yes, it’s one of the “Censored Eleven”, the cartoons Warner Brothers withheld from distribution. It’s not hard to see why: it’s a blackface send up on Disney’s Snow White with a racy and racist tone. Said to be inspired by African-American actress Ruby Dandridge’s suggestion to Bob Clampett that he make a musical cartoon with an all black cast, it has a strangely patriotic twist to it. Not only are the “sebben dwarves” GIs, our fairy tale heroine is actively helping with the war effort and the evil queen is a that most-reviled of homefront baddies, a black marketeer! It also provides another example of carefully compartmentalized racism, making clear who the real enemy is, sort of. No word on what Dandridge (actress Dorothy’s mom!), who provides the voice of the flamboyant villainess, thought of the final product.
A gorgeous animation that truly gets to the heart of the inter-species strangeness that is the folk favorite “Froggie Goes A-Courtin'”. From the National Film Board of Canada, directed by Evelyn Lambart, and sung by Derek Lamb.
Goldilocks Goes Glamorous (B+W, 1949)
Titillating tales featuring bikini-clad women and an over-the-top narrator. Shot over 60 years ago these risque shorts always feature women doing things that expose themselves like applying suntan lotion, trying on clothes and “getting comfortable” in the hot sun. A sexy and sexist look at the lighter side of eroticism in the 1940s. In this segment, goldilocks has stumbled upon the three bears swingin' pad and can't help but take a dip in the pool!
Titillating tales featuring bikini-clad women and an over-the-top narrator. Shot over 60 years ago these risque shorts always feature women doing things that expose themselves like applying suntan lotion, trying on clothes and “getting comfortable” in the hot sun. A sexy and sexist look at the lighter side of eroticism in the 1940s. In this segment, goldilocks has stumbled upon the three bears swingin' pad and can't help but take a dip in the pool!
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Directed by Tad Makarczynski; produced by Semafor Studios in Poland, this remarkable rarity is a grim, savage and unpleasantly effective little anti-war allegory, cleverly conceived and beautifully executed. “The Magician” recruits a small group of young boys to become little soldiers… Not much information on director Makarczynski,- he most certainly lived through the horror of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the Warsaw Uprising, and in addition to many documentaries about the war he collaborated with “On The Bowery” director Lionel Rogosin on the anti-war film “Good Times, Wonderful Times”.
"Merry Melodies in Technicolor" Pigs in a Polka Freleng
Warner Brothers Presents. BOW print, est. 1950s ?. The tale of the Three Little Pigs from the point of view of the Wolf. The pigs are after the wolf.
Mary's Little Lamb
Puss in Boots
Mary's Little Lamb
Puss in Boots
The Invisible Boy (Color, 1982, Closed Captioned)
Fantasy, mountain magic, the impatience of youth, and loneliness of old age are the timeless elements that work to make this a whimsical and sensitive tale. When a young boy visits his mountain-dwelling aunt, he is put off by her solitary strangeness and unmoved by her love for him. He wants to go home but the lady seems to entice him with a little hocus-pocus that makes him think he has become invisible. Starring Christian Slater