9:30am - 1930s - Minnie the Moocher - dir. Dave Fleischer - Starring: Betty Boop (AKA the voice of Mae Questel), Cab Calloway
One of cinema's earliest music videos gives Thriller a run for its money. Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra bring the music - and even feature in their own live-action concert-film intro - while Betty Boop and the dog Bimbo bring the crazy, and then there's a dancing walrus, electric-chairs, skeletons and witches to bring the utterly f$%^ed up.
The 1930s saw the early rise of Walt Disney, but his biggest rival was the mighty Fleischer Studios. They used a technique called 'rotoscoping' - filming someone, and then tracing over that footage - to create some of the most stunning animated footage ever painted. Fleischer Studios were ahead of their time with Minnie the Moocher; it's 8-minutes of inspired lunacy. Those who attend this screening, and then follow it up with The Forbidden Zone later in the evening, will find the double-feature quite rewarding too...
If you're super keen, you can check out a clip of Cab Calloway singing the haunting song the film's based on:
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