Weirdorama Theatre
Here
you will find film you will never see anywhere else.
They are shorts and features from the past. If you are young you have never seen anything like these. If you are older you may remember some. They might be films you saw at the theatre, at school, in the board room, at a stag party. But one thing is sure, you will not forget them. They do fit in the category of weird. That is why we call this theatre Weirdorama.
Georgia Southern
Ah
the fifties the waning days of burlesque. Men were so horny they were willing to
put up with anything including lame comedians in order to watch women walk
around in marginally erotic outfits and sometimes strip. No strips here. It
does seem however that Georgia would slip a disk doing this dance on a nightly
basis.
Starring Georgia Sothern in her famous "Star & Garter" interpretational dance act.
More Dangerous than Dynamite
Just
when you thought you have seen it all comes this helpful movie. This flick warns
housewives about the effects of cleaning clothes with Gasoline. With the price
of gasoline these days I have been forced to stop washing my clothing by hand
with gasoline and have reverted back to laundry detergent. Evidently, women
washed clothes in gasoline during the Depression in order to save money on dry
cleaning. If this film is to be believed, many women were killed and maimed when
the gas exploded. We see a grim-faced housewife pour a can of gasoline into a
basin and wash the clothes with her bare hands. Her lonely misery and
incompetence are contrasted with a tour of the Reputable Dry Cleaning where
clothing is also cleaned with gasoline. While she scrubs away, her
children bother her, a kettle boils on the stove and a fire roars in the
fireplace. Her life is an accident waiting to happen and sure enough, it does.
The gasoline explodes. She runs from the house covered with animated flames and
ends up burned and disfigured in the hospital. At least now someone will be
taking care of her for once, instead of her endlessly taking care of other
people. And what was she cleaning in that basin?
We need Stockings (1956)
Chemistry
gives birth to new synthetics benefiting women, in this case sheer stockings.
Yes ladies, it's Agilon yarn! Sure to have every man around trying to crawl right up your skirt. Film advises how to get customers into the store? Oh hell, just have some of those models in the window lifting their skirts like that. We will be sure to stop in. Now that we are properly informed, We will start doing our own market research. Pardon me Miss, is that Agilon yarn? Show me your comfort zone baby.
Betty Blue
Hollywood
is famed the world over for its fantastically beautiful girls, but seldom, if
ever, has the film capital known a girl as all-over gorgeous as Betty Blue. This
21-year-old belle from sunny Ten-Ten-Tennessee is not only blessed with a
spectacularly beautiful body, 5' 4" and 39-23-35 , adding up to 112 pounds, but
she has a face that more than lives up to it. What's more, Betty has a rare
flair for style almost unique among pinup lasses. Basically what is seen
the typical PG-13 movie these days. We are not certain, but I do believe that
was none other than Artie Shaw, licorice stick master, providing the music.
As Boys Grow Up (1957)
Seems
that the High School coach is the mentor of sex education for these kids. Seems
that the children's parents should be responsible for this task, but this was
produced in a period where parents just didn't talk about such things to their
kids, and the PTA's probably insisted that the coach be a third party or
surrogate parent.
In this day and age, knowing what we now know about people who's professions
bring them into close contact with children, this film would more than likely
still remain the most trusted source of carnal knowledge.
The video is surprisingly honest and informative. Presentation is
straightforward, and it addresses taboo topics such as masturbation in a
positive light, a topic on which a US surgeon general lost her job in the
mid 1990's when she commented upon it. A topic not even mentioned when students
had sex education in the early 90's.
Behind Your Radio Dial (1947)
Behind
the scenes tour of NBC's radio and television broadcasting facilities at
Rockefeller Center, New York City. This late-40s film gives the viewer a filmed
tour of NBC studios at Radio City in New York, back when NBC was mainly a radio
network. The film primarily focuses on NBC New York. We go into Radio City
(Now you can see where the name comes from) and visit the many different
departments NBC radio has, from the News Department to the putting on of Radio
plays, we see all aspects in action. Quite some fascinating facts are revealed..
I like the fact that NBC had tours even when they were just doing radio, by
girls dressed as bell-hops and who had to have an engineering background. Also
the music, by the NBC Orchestra (Paul Schaffer not included) is quite stirring.
All in all this film is fun, educational and is very cool.
Body Care and Grooming (1948)
Exhaustive
(and sexist) explanation of personal care and daily habits of cleanliness,
demonstrating how to keep the skin, hair, nails, and teeth clean and healthy.
Partially filmed at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. College students get
a barrage of grooming tips in this postwar film. It starts with an unkempt
college girl wearing lumpy bobby sox and a droopy slip beneath her pleated
skirt. This was a generation that had grown up during World War II. Dad
was in the service and mom worked in a munitions factory. Nobody was around
check if the kids had brushed their teeth or not. In any case, films like this
worked. These students grew up to be the tidy, conformist parents of the
fifties. But those old unhygienic habits came back to haunt them in their
counter-culture children, who used sloppy grooming as a sign of political
protest.
A Day in the Death of Donny (1969)
Docudrama
which follows a junkie on his neverending quest for money, and ultimately, his
fix. A good anti-drug movie. This has to be one of the most well done shorts on
this site. Unlike most films of this genre, "A Day in the Death" manages to
avoid the typical crap. The acting is also supurb, never becoming exaggerated or
melodramatic. Rather than using the usual condemning voice of a narrator, this
film uses real commentary from people who have actually seen the effects of
drugs first hand. As another plus, the cinematography in this flick is superb.
The whole thing is artfully filmed in black and white, and some of the shots are
as beautiful as still photography. And finally, as some of the other reviewers
have mentioned, the music is perfect. This is truly a work of art. 5
stars.
News Sketches (1945)
Humorous
"sketches" of human interest stories by Max Fleischer, who headed Handy's
animation department in the mid 1940s and 1950s. In this short, Max
Fleischer's sedulous drawing hand sketches cartoonish illustrations based on
eccentric news stories that have been reported by the Associated Press. Instead
of simply opting to present viewers with a set of complete drawings, Fleischer
draws each illustration as the narrator provides the details. As one will see,
this style is effective as it allows Fleischer to perform some very good comedic
timing. Light fluffer stories as drawn by Mr. Betty Boop himself, Max
Fleischer. These stories, which are 'drawn on the news wire' basically are human
interest stories. How you can marry while 2000 miles away, a clumsy gasoline
attendant and some interesting ways to repel a shark attack. While Max Fleischer
draws out a picture. 'Drawing' maybe to broad of a word though, as the pictures
are totally oversimplified in the drawing. Max draws a line, a whole box
appears. We love the optical illusion of the Nevada. For Fleischer fanatics
mostly, but others will be amused as well.
What to Do in a Zombie attack.
Great Strippers of the Past.
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