Buzzy Boop at the Concert (1938) / Inner Sanctum (1948)

10899 Wilshire Boulevard,Los Angeles CA 90024

21 May, 2022

Description

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents free screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum. Please review our COVID-19 protocols. ---------- Buzzy Boop at the ConcertU.S., 1938 Eight years after Betty Boop first appeared on-screen to become an era-defining animated icon, the Fleischer Brothers extended her on-screen family with the intention of freshening up the brand. Introduced in 1938 as Betty’s country cousin, Buzzy Boop was Betty’s comic opposite in every way. Where Betty was frequently the fetching victim of unwanted mischievousness, the gum-smacking, marble-shooting, pig-tailed dynamo Buzzy initiated chaos wherever she went. Unseen for 85 years, Buzzy Boop at the Concert is one of only two shorts she appeared in and was thought lost until a print was discovered in Russia in 2019. DCP, b&w, 8 min. Producer: Max Fleischer. Director: Dave Fleischer. With: Mae Questel, Jack Mercer. Restoration funding provided by ASIFA-Hollywood. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc., Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Inc., FotoKem. Special thanks to Gosfilmofond, Stanislav Dedinsky, Natalie Ryabchikova, Paramount Pictures Archives. Inner SanctumU.S., 1948 A refined woman meets an older man on a train who displays an ability for predicting the future. As they approach their destination, he begins to share a tale about the next stop along the route. What began as a series of mysteries first published by Simon & Schuster in 1930, the Inner Sanctum strand evolved into a radio program that first hit the airwaves in 1941 and spanned over 500 episodes through the fall of 1952. 35mm, b&w, 62 min. Producers: Samuel Rheiner, Walter Shenson. Director: Lew Landers. Based on the Inner Sanctum Mystery radio series created by Himan Brown. Screenwriter: Jerome Todd Gollard. With: Charles Russell, Mary Beth Hughes, Billy House. Restored by The Packard Humanities Institute in The PHI Stoa Film Lab.