Just click on the links and enjoy a trip to a movie theater of yesterday. Day before yesterday, even.
Settle in and enjoy.
Today's Cartoons
Merrie Melodies: A Day at the Zoo (1939)Cartoon characters spend a silly day at the Kalama Zoo.
(Kalama Zoo. Get it?)
Betty Boop in Minnie the Moocher (1932)
(with great musical and visual opening from Cab Calloway and His Band)
Today's Short Subject
Our Double Feature
The Crooked Way (1954)
Starring John Payne
Film noir - an amnesiac war vet just released from an Army hospital is framed for murder.
Mambo (1954)Starring Silvana Mangano, Shelley Winters
Poor venetian girl in love with a dead end guy is taken under the wing of a Mambo dance producer (Shelley Winters). She briefly finds fame and then a problematic and complicated marriage with a count (the why of it you will have to find out for yourself). Her marriage is troubled by her relationship with her former lover Mario, the dead end guy.
* Disclaimer: All films linked here, as far as the poster can determine, are
in Public Domain and, as such, are freely distributable and viewable by the public.
The Betty Boop cartoon was great. Cab Calloway was moonwalking before Michael Jackson.
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