Date: Friday, November 11th, 2016 at 8:00pm
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilms.com or (415) 558-8117
Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com
Featuring:
The Pick-Up (B+W, 1944, excerpt)
Watch out for loose women at the dance hall, soldier, you might miss your furlough before you ship out! A WWII army training film on the horrors of venereal disease. Corporal John Green is anxiously awaiting his furlough when he meets a dame he thinks is a "nice girl" until he ends up with with a nasty dose of the clap. Looks like he'll be heading to the infirmary instead of on vacation!
Giving an Enema (B+W, 1944, excerpt)
Of all the instructional films the US Navy has made Giving an Enema is no doubt the weirdest and most hilarious. If you can find anything stranger than a crash course in how to inject water into another man’s rectum let us know. Don’t worry-you’ll be seeing an abbreviated version not the entire 22 minute film!
Bluejackets Personal Hygiene (B+W, 1943)
Get unclassified with this naval training film featuring dozens of naked sailors! That's right, these brave boys in blue reveal much more than their courage, we get to see all their artillery. Learn about proper care of feet, posture, teeth, wardrobe and an all important lesson in group showering! All the homoerotic tension you could dream of and vintage beefcakes galore!
Sailor Soundies (B+W, 1940s)
The precursor to the music video, the Soundie was a short musical film made in the 1940s, often featuring singing and dancing in under 3 minutes. They were distributed to be played on specialized jukeboxes in night clubs, bars and amusement parks.
Heaven Help a Sailor- Featuring The Seven Sarongs
Two sailors get rejected by the girls they’re sitting with in a bar. A pal sailor saunters up and tells them a story about crashing on an island of beautiful girls. We see the old sailor covered in tattoos surrounded by beautiful island women.
You've Got Me Guessing - Don Kennelly & Robert Williams
A musical sailor visits with a beautiful woman and sings with his pals.
A goofy sailor plays the ukelele and sings about the ladies of Hawaii, all the while an overly-aggressive hula dancer tries to seduce him into dancing with her.
Shorty the chimp livens things up his first day at the beach, when he slips off to the pier and manages an adventurous boat ride.
Popeye the Sailor: In the Army Now (B+W, 1936 Dave Fleischer)Popeye and Bluto are at it again! When Olive Oyl declares her love for a man in uniform, the superfoes must battle it out for the last placement in the Navy. After getting into fisticuffs, they each share a scrapbook of some of their best moves with the recruiting officer. Who will win the recruitment and Olive's heart?
One a Minute (B+W, 1944)
A poker game provides the metaphor for US Navy sailor-saps on shore as they “take a chance” with the VD-infected hostesses at the Kit Kat Club. “The only way to cover that sucker bet is to use provalactics” spouts the doctor. Don’t miss the pretty girls do their “perp walk” as their std tests are announced. The shame!
Oddball Films is a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like The Nice Guys and Milk, documentaries like The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Silicon Valley, Kurt Cobain: The Montage of Heck, television programs like Transparent and Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world.
Our screenings are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educational films, feature films, movie trailers, medical, industrial military, news out-takes and every genre in between. We’re actively working to present rarely screened genres of cinema as well as avant-garde and ethno-cultural documentaries, which expand the boundaries of cinema. Oddball Films is the largest film archive in Northern California and one of the most unusual private collections in the US. We invite you to join us in our weekly offerings of offbeat cinema.
Curator’s BiographyKat Shuchter is a graduate of UC Berkeley in Film Studies. She is a filmmaker, artist and esoteric film hoarder. She has helped program shows at the PFA, The Nuart and Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater and was crowned “Found Footage Queen” of Los Angeles, 2009. She has programmed over 250 shows at Oddball on everything from puberty primers to experimental animation.About Oddball Films
Oddball Films is a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like The Nice Guys and Milk, documentaries like The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Silicon Valley, Kurt Cobain: The Montage of Heck, television programs like Transparent and Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world.Our screenings are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educational films, feature films, movie trailers, medical, industrial military, news out-takes and every genre in between. We’re actively working to present rarely screened genres of cinema as well as avant-garde and ethno-cultural documentaries, which expand the boundaries of cinema. Oddball Films is the largest film archive in Northern California and one of the most unusual private collections in the US. We invite you to join us in our weekly offerings of offbeat cinema.