#one sheet
Today’s treat? An awesome poster for The Drownsman, about a girl dealing with chronic hydrophobia and the evil that is unleashed when her friends try to help her get over it.
Premiering at Cannes soon, I’d say this is one to keep an eye out for. A good one sheet is not always indicative of a good film, but this is truly a stellar poster, and the film has an interesting concept. Here’s hoping it turns out well!
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“Tit for Tat” is a 1935 short comedy film starring Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy. It is their follow-up sequel film to “Them Thar Hills” which was released the previous year & includes the same two supporting characters, Mr. & Mrs. Hall, portrayed by Charlie Hall & Mae Busch.
Release Date: January 05, 1935
27" X 41" (rare) One Sheet theatrical Poster
There is a bit of “cockney rhyming slang” at work here. A “tit-fer”refers to“hat” as in “Tit-for-tat”. (This is why Stan tips his hat.)
Stan (in a later interview), had said that he’d put special jokes “in for England”…. I had often wondered what he meant by that & over the years; I have spotted a few things–In the films “Perfect Day” & “Way Out West” Stan & Oliver both say “Oh! me apple!” Also, the film title “Towed In A Hole” (1933)suggests a play on “toad in the hole” a name for a dish consisting of sausages baked in batter. There are possibly other examples!
The regal lady the boys are tipping their hats to has been identified by Richard Bann as their co-star of the silent days; Viola Richard. She was listed as an extra in the film, but isn’t seen in the finished cut of “Tit For Tat”.
THE 8TH ACADEMY AWARDS |Thursday, March 05, 1936
Stan Laurel attends the Awards banquet at the Biltmore Hotel.
“Tit For Tat” was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Live Action Short Film (Comedy) of 1935, although it did not win. (For the record, Robert Benchley’s “How To Sleep” won.)
Gargoyle 2.1 designed by Alessandro Beber | instructions|folded by
Shaping is a constant struggle
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Ryu Zin Jr. 2.1 designed by Jason Ku | OrigamiConnect|folded by
I’ve temporarily revived from the dead to fold some models. I really like how the model is semi-translucent because I used tracing paper. Also I learned this model from OrigamiConnect webinars offered by OrigamiUSA, which I highly recommend (link above).
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Songbird, KNL Dragon, Goatfish designed by Robert Lang | instructions|folded by
I had the chance to visit the OrigamiUSA library while I was in NYC and had a field day. Also being able to fold Robert Lang designs is kind of a dream come true.
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Merlion 3.0 designed by Andrey Ermakov | instructions|folded by
Task 13 of Origami Olympiad. I sorta gave up on shaping this thing because the paper just kept springing back and I couldn’t get it to stay in place.
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Rosa Odorata designed by Ryoichi Takagi | instructions|folded by
Task 12 of Origami Olympiad. Shaping the flowers was more fun than collapsing the actual tess.
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Santa Claus designed by Jo Nakashima and Camila Zeymer | instructions
Santa’s Sleigh designed by Jo Nakashima | instructions
Tesselated Flower designed by David Martinez | instructions
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
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Shoes designed by Andrey Ermakov | instructions|folded by
Task 5 of Origami Olympiad. The way this model collapses is super satisfying.
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he’s a baaaaaad…
“Breathtaking. Ballbreaking…”
Title:Revenge of the Humanoids/La Revanche Des Humanoïdes
Release Year: 1983
Production Countries: France, Japan
Film Director: Albert Barillé
Art Director: René Borg
Length:100 Minutes
Synopsis:
Around the year 3000, Pierrot, his girlfriend Psi, and their android Métro (who has a positronic brain), inhabitants of the planet Omega, are tasked with ensuing space security as members of the Galaxy Patrol. The Galaxy Patrol is the police force of the Omega Confederation, an alliance of planets, including Earth. The Omega Confederation is run by Lieutenant Pierrot’s parents, his mother President Pierrette and his father Colonel Pierre. The chief enemy of the Galatic Confederation is the militant Republic of Cassiopeia, led by General The Pest and his henchman The Dwarf.
On their way back from what should have merely been a routine space travel mission, Pierrot, Psi, and Métro, the best team occupied by the Galactic Patrol, intercept a strange phenomenon in space: giant Cassiopeian ships flocking to carry out shooting exercises. The firepower deployed by these military maneuvers is gigantic, the extended range is huge — capable of obliterating entire planets! They stop to observe the military tests, and in the process of these three heroes reporting their encounter to the Omega Confederation, their vessel the Libellule is shaken-up by the turbulence of the energy blasts, and crash lands on the primitive planet of Apis.
Half-hurt, Pierrot is collected and saved by the inhabitants of this planet, a group of men who live secretly in the mountains. These inhabitants are extremely anxious because they fear the humanoid robots of Yama, a nearby planet controlled by a supercomputer that is determined to conquer the universe. These underground rebels are also fighting the hostile native peoples on the surface of Apis.
Psi is captured by the humanoids and taken as their prisoner to the neighboring planet Yama. As for Métro, he has disappeared.
With help from those who saved him, Pierrot arrives on Yama to rescue Psi. Along the way he finds Métro underground and it is with his android friend that Pierrot tries to penetrate to the center of the secret city where Psi is being held hostage. Aided by a few of the rebels, they manage to cross the dams and roadblocks and reach the heart of the city. They release Psi and then are faced with the large computer long-ago designed to govern the whole of Earth.
They then learn that their planet, Omega, is the next goal of the grand supercomputer and all must comply. While Omega are preparing for confrontation, Pierrot succeeds in approaching the computer and destroying its circuits before the computer successfully took control of its target planet.
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Il était une fois… l'Espace (English:Once Upon a Time… Space) was a French and Japanese co-produced science fiction/space opera television series which first aired on television in France between 1982 and 1983, and on TV in Japan in 1984 as Ginga Patrol PJ(English:Galaxy Patrol PJ). It was written and directed by Albert Barillé with artistic direction by René Borg.
La Revanche Des Humanoïdes (English: Revenge of the Humanoids) is a compilation/condensation of episodes #21 through #26 — the final six episodes of the 26-episode series. The individual episodes were around 26 minutes in length each, and the feature film edit is approximately 100 minutes in length.
According to the art director, René Borg, the film Revenge of the Humanoids was released in French theaters in January 1983, a month before the broadcast of the six-part mini-series finale to Once Upon a Time… Space premiered on French television in February 1983.
The film has a feminist message as the supreme leader of the heroic, democratically elected government the Omega Confederation, is a female President, and Psi, a female space police member, is the co-protagonist.
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Ten of the original dozen Peraustrínia 2004 lobby cards that would have been posted in cinemas in 1990 to promote the film. Displaying still images from the feature-length Catalan animated film.
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