Rare Disney/MGM/WB War Animation at L.A. Screening!

[papibear]

VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER
"ANIMATION AT WAR"
Hosted by Jerry Beck!
Wednesday October 22nd, 2003 @ 8:00pm

A lecture & screening featuring rarely screened 35mm prints of World War II Animation from the Major Hollywood Studios.
Jerry Beck will introduce and offer a historical perspective to this representative collection of films.
The evening will include a 60th anniversary presentation of the Walt Disney feature VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER, a film screened only once in Los Angeles since its original release on July 17, 1943. This part documentary-part animated cartoon is based on Alexander P. de Serversky's 1942 book. The resulting motion picture is powerful wartime propaganda, stating its case using spectacular effects animation, historical events, an Oscar nominated musical score and humorous cartooning.
This will, no doubt, be the last theatrical showing of this film.
The program will also feature 35mm studio vault prints of several war themed animated short subjects including BLITZ WOLF (MGM, Oscar Nominee 1942), RUSSIAN RHAPSODY (Warner Bros., 1943), SONG OF VICTORY (Columbia, 1943), REASON & EMOTION (Disney, Oscar Nominee 1943) and OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE (Disney, 1942).

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 @ 8:00pm
THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE
ARTS & SCIENCES
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA
Tickets are $5.00 for the general public and $3.00 for students and Academy members.
Tickets go on sale October 1st. Doors open at 7pm.
More info will be posted soon at http://www.oscars.org

[Scott in LA]

So, now that it's tonight...anyone (besides me) going?

[hippie1kenobi]

Seems really interesting. I like the actual action war cartoons better than the propaganda stuff. Comando Daffy and the like are classics IMHO.

[disneyfreak62]

Can't go tonight, but looking forward to the DVD in December.