Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Hard Luck Charley Bowers Gets His Break
The Library of Congress inducts 3 animated films out of this year`s 25 films added to the Film Registry.
This is work the Film Registry should be about. Preserving the work of forgotten genus for the ages to come. Charley Bowers, was a stop motion animator, silent comedian, 2-D animator (Mutt and Jeff) and ex-circus performer. But very few people know him today.
As fortune would have it a DVD of his known complete surviving work is now available. DVDtoons The work is amazing and no longer hard to find. I even got one of his films on a 99 cent DVD. It`s about time that Hard Luck Charley gets his break. ¶ 6:24 AM
The Library of Congress inducts 3 animated films out of this year`s 25 films added to the Film Registry.
8) Duck and Cover (1951) is a Conelrad atomic defense commercial
19) Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936) is a Fleischer Popeye
24) There It Is (1928). is one of Charley Bowers surrealist shorts, a film combing live action with stop-motion animation. A forgotten genus of American cinema makes it into the Film Registry.
This is work the Film Registry should be about. Preserving the work of forgotten genus for the ages to come. Charley Bowers, was a stop motion animator, silent comedian, 2-D animator (Mutt and Jeff) and ex-circus performer. But very few people know him today.
As fortune would have it a DVD of his known complete surviving work is now available. DVDtoons The work is amazing and no longer hard to find. I even got one of his films on a 99 cent DVD. It`s about time that Hard Luck Charley gets his break. ¶ 6:24 AM
