The highlight of this week's summer long celebration of Hollywood Animation, ANIMAFEASTIVAL is BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN (1943) Directed by Shamus Culhane. It is banned today from public presentation. I am offering a rare, original Technicolor print. The film is a SWING SYMPHONY. Here is what Shamus Culhane had to say about it in his book: "For example, in BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN we related the colors of the backgrounds to the structure of the music. The picture was basically painted in cold colors, until there was a riff in the music. When that happened I cut, in sync, to a scene painted with vivid orange, red or yellow. After the riff I cut back to a series of scenes with cold colors, then repeating this process on the following riff.
"Some years after BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN was released, I came upon an article in S. I. Hayakawa's magazine, ETC., a periodical devoted to semantics. The writer analyzed in scholarly terms our use of color to interpret music in the film. Our experiment did not go unnoticed."--Shamus Culhane, TALKING ANIMALS pg. 255.
This is just one of the over 1,000 titles in my archive.
