Dennis Nyback creates his film programs from a collection of thousands of early jazz films, soundies, scopitones, dance films, animation, baseball films, foreign films, documentaries, educational films, industrial films, commercials, newsreels, silent films, vintage television shows, home movies, propaganda films, science fiction films, and rare, forgotten, forbidden, and amazing short films.
Fuck Mickey Mouse Is it true? Is there a segment of the population that believes Walt Disney invented animation? This program examines how the other Hollywood animation studios reacted to the Disney juggernaut in the 1930's and 1940's. It all started in 1994, I became intrigued with various cartoons I owned that had strong connections with cartoons made by the Disney company, yet were made by other animators. These cartoons could be divided into three groups: Bald imitations of Mickey Mouse; non-Disney precursors to later Disney versions of the same story; and exuberantly vicious parodies.
In The Future That Never Happened, Or Will It?, we discover the joyful optimism of the 60's regarding our robotized 21st century in three rare films produces by the corporations.
