Movie night at Moore College of Art and Design

Our most recent entry in the ongoing "How to Stalk Glomarization, Esq." series:

Tonight The Secret Cinema is presenting a program of surrealist animated shorts at the Moore College of Art and Design, 20th and Race Streets in Philadelphia:

Surrealism in American Animation will offer a sampling of the craziest, most imaginative, and funniest creations from the pens of classic Hollywood animators, with an emphasis on rarely shown films, from studios famous and obscure. These cartoons -- shown using scarce, beautiful prints culled from private archives, many in glorious I.B. Technicolor or shimmering black and white -- display the full range of classic animators' art and craft. Most of these cartoons have never been shown before by us.

Show is at 8:00 p.m.; admission is a low, low $5 $7.

I'm really looking forward to this program. There'll be stuff by Ub Iwerks and some of the other brilliant, brilliant talents of early American animation. YouTube just don't do their work justice; you truly have to see "the old Pin Cushion Man, terror of Ballooney-Land" projected on a real screen to appreciate the art: not just the animation and music, but also the Cinecolor and other detail that doesn't come through when you're talking pixels and video refresh rates.