Revised July 12, 2010
Summer
is upon us, so we are bidding a temporary farewell to our hosts at
Domy until fall. In the meantime, thanks to Super Happy Fun Land and
Spacetaker Gallery we can beat the heat with Pepito the 16mm way.
Friday, August 20, 2010 8:30 PM at Super Happy Fun Land 3801 Polk Street, Houston, TX 77003-4837 (713) 880-2100 http://www.superhappyfunland.com/
SHFL Annual LEO Party!
Program TBA
Future Showings TBA
Ein Wochenende Ohne Geld International Film Bureau, Early 60's, 14 min What do you do if you're facing a weekend without money - auf deutsch?
EN FACE Filmow Oswiatowych, Lodz, Poland, 1960's, 7 min, B&W Soviet-era Polish psychedelic collage animation of overlaid clip art images with mid century art music. If anyone can explain how this was supposed to build socialism, I'll buy them a beer.
IS A CAREER IN RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR YOU? No talent? No problem! There's plenty of work behind the scenes for faceless nobodies just like you!
Polly Tix Goes to Washington Baby Burlesk 1933 10min : Bizarre melodrama of shady politics enacted entirely by toddlers in diapers. The tycoons feature giant jewel encrusted diaper pins. Starring 3 year old Shirley Temple as a bejeweled temptress.
Commit or Destruct 1965(?) 28(?) NET Examines the Kluge family of Lompoc Calif, whose livelihood depends on the threat of nuclear annihilation, as emblematic of life in the mid 20th century.
Flowing Solids 15 Campus Film Prod Presented by Humble Oil & Refining Co. Fabulous 50s scientific demonstration film complete with somnambulent petrochemical technician demonstrating the miracles of catalytic cracking.
Foley's Fashon Shoot 1968? 4 Silent. Raw advertising footage, models on catwalk at Foley's Dept Store in Downtown Houston.
Life in Lowlands (The Netherlands) late 50's? 11 Coronet Geography. Good.
Drugs in the Tenderloin 1967 Documentary of the intersection of the emerging gay community in San Francisco with drugs, featuring what may be the original Ratso Rizzo. Directed by Allan Willis.
Case History of a Rumor 1964? You probably never knew about the United Nations plot to divide up America amongst foreign monitors. New England was to be occupied by (gasp) Congolese troops! Even in the days before internet and cable conspiracy mongers had no trouble spreading their tale.
Automation, The Next Revolution
How Paper Cups, Cartons and Books are Made
It's Your Future
Pennzoil in Perspective
A Pennzoil Day
Odyssey: A Quest for Energy
Venture Offshore
Commit or Destruct
David Won't Be Here Today
Wave Motion
Targets
The Fat Film
The Fossil Story 1950s Shell film about fossils and their relation to oil.
The Living Soil 1960s Shell film about the miracle of agricultural pesticides.
Air is for Breathing 1970s Shell film about how concerned industry is with air pollution.
The Private Letters of Private Dobbs
27 Soldiers
NOTE: The best way to find out about all future shows is to send us a message with an email address on our contact page and we will add you to the Cinema Bomar email list.
Past programs not yet archived:
Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010 8:30 PM (Rain Date Feb 23)
Elizabeth says : Since we appear to be having 1937 all over again, let's escape economic worries the way they did back then, with a whole lot of singing and dancing, in a hodgepodge of musical numbers from the 30's and 40's
Life In Hollywood (Excerpt) 1940? A look at art-deco Hollywood, where the tennis court more likely than not is occupied by a roller-skate-tap-dancing starlet.
Rosalie (Excerpts) 1937 A selection of production numbers featuring dancer Eleanor Powell.
Blues in the Night 1942 With Cab Calloway
Isn't it a Lovely Day 1935 Excerpted from Top Hat, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance their way through a sudden rain.
I've Got Spurs 1940s Singing cowboys and dancing cowgirls.
Plus three Busby Berkley numbers:
I Only Have Eyes for You 1934 I never get tired of watching Ruby Keeler emerge from her own eye.
Dames 1934 Their knees in action are the attraction, tell the truth you go to see those beautiful dames.
By A Waterfall 1933 Sublimating the sex drive into a sea of synchronized swimmers.
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2010 8:30 PM (Rain Date Apr 27)
Rescheduled from March
Sell as Customers Like It 1949 Johnson & Johnson training film for pharmacy owners. Never mind the cornball marketing gimmicks like towers of boxes, the successful pharmacist knows the key to success is to have the things your customers need, when they need them. So keep plenty of hairbrushes and KY jelly in stock.
Gage Home Movies : Esther Williams Pools Mid 1950s Bathing beauty movie star Esther Williams shows how even an average schmo like you can have a pool with her exclusive “pool in a box” kit. Featuring technicolor vistas of an L.A. neighborhood in full 50s glory, and co-hosted by Williams' second husband, who she described as an alcoholic parasite who squandered $10 million of her earnings.
Successful Secretary 1964 Featuring “Mr. Typewriter”, whose didactic adventures with wickerwork women are sure to improve your efficiency in in the office.
Plus a bonus film TBA
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 8:30 PM (Rain Date May 25)
Note: Prior to the show we will be projecting “Posture in Action” - without its less than stellar narration. So if your poise could use a tune-up, come let these Iowa gals show you how its done.
A Day with the FBI Reader's Digest 1951 B&W 20min. Criminals and subversives have got nowhere to hide as the FBI brings the power of Science to bear on them.
People Doing Silly Things with Dogs B&W 2min.
The Psychological Differences Between the Sexes McGraw Hill 1964 B&W 12min. Or might one say, The Battle of the Stubble?
The Fashion Right Summer Burlington Industries 1974 Color 22min. Let Letitia Baldridge and J C Penny show you how a working girl can make the correct impression in the workplace thanks to innovative polyester fabrics.
El Gaucho Goofy Walt Disney 1943 Color 9min Cowpoke Goofy is transported to the pampas of Argentina, where he learns the dangers of equinophilia.
And if there's time...
Odyssey : A Quest for Energy American Petroleum Institute 1970s 22min. It's been years since I watched this one so I don't remember much, but it's got plenty of offshore drilling platforms.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 8:30 PM (Rain Date June 22) @ Domy Books, 1709 Westheimer, Montrose TX 713-523-DOMY. Films will be shown in the garden behind the bookstore. If the bookstore is closed, enter next door through Brasil.
Admission Free
Shortchanged! 1960S Evil shortchange artists are fanning across America victimizing unsuspecting cashiers. Learn how their tricks work so YOUR till isn't short at the end of the day.
Dynamite! 1930S No matter how tight money gets, it's a deadly mistake to do your own dry cleaning with gasoline in the kitchen.
Cooperation, Competition and Conflict 1950s The title tells the tale.
What is Automation 1965 12min BFA Assembly line porn. In the future, factories will have almost no employees. The rest of us will be on permanent vacation.
Other films TBA...
Friday, June 25, 2010 8:30 PM at Super Happy Fun Land 3801 Polk Street, Houston, TX 77003-4837 (713) 880-2100 http://www.superhappyfunland.com/
Admission Free, donation appreciated
We're super happy to be back at SHFL to bring you a super special film:
Achieving Sexual Maturity 1970 Wiley : Or as our friend Skip Elsheimer refers to it, “The Naked Hairy Hippie Film”, this is one of those films where you repeatedly ask yourself “what were they thinking”. Note that this film is not pornographic but does feature adolescent nudity and is intended for adult audiences! If nudity makes you uncomfortable, this is NOT the film for you.
With
Marijuana : Noted hip person Sonny Bono brings the voice of reason to the question of blowing grass.
The Sunshine Makers 1930s cartoon allegory of the forces of light against darkness. I don't want to be happy! I want to be sad!
Other films TBA...
Saturday,
July 10, 2010 6:30 PM at Spacetaker Gallery 2101
Winter Street
Houston, TX 77007-4429 http://www.spacetaker.org/
Admission Free
Music of Roses - ca. 1970, 21 min : Roses Inc and Your Host Mr. Sidney Blackmer show you how the good life is lived in San Saba, Texas
How Females (and Males) Win Beauty Contests 1940s 2min : Who among us cannot benefit from the beauty secrets of the professionals?
Georgie Porgie Music With Spice 1940s 2min : You may wonder why all the girls are lusting for Georgie until you see his jitterbugging moves. Dancers Patty Lacey and Ray Hirsh
Toes Tell 1969, Encyclopedia Brittannica, 6 min "... allows boys and girls to talk and write about their feet and how things feel to their toes." With just that touch of eroticism that is so important in reaching the elementary school student
The Nautical Fantasy 1930s 2min : An art-deco dream that begins with babies and ends with breasts.
Summer of '63 1973, Sid Davis Productions, 20 min : One of our favorites, a classic among VD films. Let's go to Seaview!
Beginning Responsibility: A Lunchroom Goes Bananas 1970s Coronet, 12min The food is so repulsed by the kiddies' lunchroom behavior that it rebels and barricades the doors. The TV crew from the middle school comes in to investigate, and broker a deal with the insurgent eatables.