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The Screening Room

Vintage documentaries, modern documentaries, old cartoons and TV, and video essays worth an evening.

37 cartoons, features and TV shows, 29 in colour: Fleischer’s Superman, Popeye, Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny, the first Mickey, and whole public-domain seasons of Bonanza and The Cisco Kid.

Psychedelic & experimental animation (NFB) 20

COLOUR8 min Begone Dull Care1949 · Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart (NFB)

COLOUR7 min Synchromy1971 · Norman McLaren (NFB)

B&W13 min Pas de deux1968 · Norman McLaren (NFB)

COLOUR8 min Neighbours1952 · Norman McLaren (NFB)

COLOUR5 min Blinkity Blank1955 · Norman McLaren (NFB)

COLOUR3 min Fiddle-de-dee1947 · Norman McLaren (NFB)

COLOUR6 min Lines Horizontal1962 · Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart (NFB)

COLOUR5 min Mosaic1965 · Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart (NFB)

COLOUR8 min Spheres1969 · Norman McLaren & René Jodoin (NFB)

COLOUR5 min Walking1968 · Ryan Larkin (NFB)

COLOUR9 min Street Musique1972 · Ryan Larkin (NFB)

B&W3 min Syrinx1965 · Ryan Larkin (NFB)

COLOUR10 min The Street1976 · Caroline Leaf (NFB)

COLOUR13 min The Sand Castle1977 · Co Hoedeman (NFB)

COLOUR6 min Bead Game1977 · Ishu Patel (NFB)

B&W8 min Mindscape1976 · Jacques Drouin (NFB)

COLOUR8 min Cosmic Zoom1968 · Robert Verrall (NFB)

COLOUR10 min The Big Snit1985 · Richard Condie (NFB)

COLOUR8 min The Cat Came Back1988 · Cordell Barker (NFB) COLOUR11 min Hunger1974 · Peter Foldès (NFB)

Golden-age cartoons 12

COLOUR10 min Superman: The Mechanical Monsters1941 · Fleischer Studios

COLOUR9 min Superman: The Arctic Giant1942 · Fleischer Studios

COLOUR17 min Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor1936 · Fleischer Studios

COLOUR8 min A Corny Concerto1943 · Bob Clampett / Warner Bros.

COLOUR8 min Falling Hare1943 · Bob Clampett / Warner Bros.

B&W7 min Steamboat Willie1928 · Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks

B&W6 min The Skeleton Dance1929 · Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks

B&W8 min Betty Boop: Minnie the Moocher1932 · Fleischer Studios

B&W7 min Betty Boop: Snow-White1933 · Fleischer Studios

COLOUR7 min Felix the Cat in Bold King Cole1936 · Van Beuren Studios

COLOURPlaylist Little Lulu: The Complete Collection1943–1948 · Famous Studios / Paramount

B&W17 min The Three Stooges: Disorder in the Court1936 · Columbia Pictures

Animated features 3

COLOUR76 min Gulliver’s Travels1939 · Fleischer Studios

COLOUR78 min Mr. Bug Goes to Town1941 · Fleischer Studios

COLOUR82 min Sita Sings the Blues2008 · Nina Paley (public domain)

Vintage TV 2

COLOURPlaylist Bonanza: the public-domain episodes1959–1961 · NBC

COLOURPlaylist The Cisco Kid: the public-domain episodes1950–1956 · Ziv Television