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SUMMARY:Adventures of Casanova
DESCRIPTION:Visit the UCLA Film & Television Archive website to learn more 
 about upcoming screenings and events.\n\nFree admission. No advance 
 reservations. Ticketing is on a first come\, first served basis. The box 
 office will open 30 minutes before the screening. Seats will not be 
 assigned.\n\nIntroduction by animation historian Jerry Beck and Senior Film 
 Preservationist Miki Shannon.\n\nScreening 1 of 3\n\nThe Mouse of 
 Tomorrow\n\nYear: 1942\nCountry: U.S.\nRuntime: 6 min.\nDigital. 
 Color.\n\nWorld Premiere of New Restoration\n\nRiffing off Fleischer 
 Studios’ successful feature-length animation Superman (1941)\, Terrytoons 
 Studio debuted the first film in the Mighty Mouse series\, The Mouse of 
 Tomorrow\, the following year. While Terrytoons was known as the 
 “budget” studio or the “Woolworths” of animation\, Mighty Mouse 
 lifted the studio into Oscar-nominated status. The animation earned a 
 “swell” from the Showmen’s Trade Review upon debut. While many saw 
 Mighty Mouse’s first flick on black-and-white\, 8mm home reels from 
 Castle Films or on CBS television reruns\, the Festival presents a 
 restoration of the beautiful color original.—Jackie Forsyte\n\nDCP. 
 Production: Terrytoons. Distribution: 20th Century Fox. Producer: Paul 
 Terry. Director: Eddie Donnelly. Writer: John Foster.\n\nRestoration 
 funding provided by ASIFA-Hollywood. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television 
 Archive from 35mm nitrate successive exposure positive and nitrate print. 
 Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment\, Inc.\, Audio Mechanics\, 
 Simon Daniel Sound. Special thanks to Paramount Pictures 
 Archive.\n\nScreening 2 of 3\n\nCopy Cat\n\nYear: 1941\nCountry: 
 U.S.\nRuntime: 6 min.\n35mm.\n\nWorld Premiere of New 
 Restoration\n\nAlthough a pioneer in the animation field\, here Dave 
 Fleischer played the role of the smaller “copycat” to MGM’s 
 Hanna-Barbera team\, creators of another cat-and-mouse duo first seen in 
 Puss Gets the Boots (1940). Copy Cat was distributed by Paramount Pictures 
 in the Animated Antics series\, just a year before Paramount bought 
 Fleischer Studios.\n\nOn display is Fleischer’s characteristic 
 rotoscoping technique\, patented by Max Fleischer in 1915. The lively 
 technique of painting over motion pictures\, frame by frame\, creates 
 smooth and compelling movements. When the patent expired in 1934\, 
 competitor animation studios\, including Disney\, adopted the 
 process.—Jackie Forsyte\n\nProduction: Fleischer Studios. Distribution: 
 Paramount Pictures. Director: Dave Fleischer. Animation: Myron Waldman\, 
 Willian Henning. Writer: Bob Wickersham.\n\nRestoration funding provided by 
 ASIFA-Hollywood. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from 35mm 
 nitrate original picture negative and 35mm safety prints. Laboratory 
 services by the PHI Stoa Film Lab\, Roundabout Entertainment\, Inc.\, Audio 
 Mechanics\, Simon Daniel Sound. Special thanks to Paramount Pictures 
 Archive.\n\nScreening 3 of 3\n\nAdventures of Casanova\n\nYear: 
 1948\nCountry: U.S.\nRuntime: 83 min.\nDigital. B&W.\n\nWest Coast Premiere 
 of New Restoration\n\nWho do you call when you want to liberate Sicily? Who 
 else but Casanova? Spanish-English-language cross-market leading man Arturo 
 de Córdova and Lucille Bremer of Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) star in this 
 swashbuckling B-movie that has extraordinarily little to do with the 
 real-life Giacomo Casanova. Summoned by a band of insurgents to lead a 
 Sicilian rebellion against the Austrian Empire\, Casanova seduces\, 
 swordfights and twists romantic complications into revolutionary intrigue. 
 You can expect plenty of adventure\, high romance\, some light 
 cross-dressing\, production design that rivals major Hollywood studios\, 
 and George Tobias’ unmistakable thick Brooklyn accent.\n\nFrom a 
 historical perspective\, Adventures of Casanova is more than the sum of its 
 rather shlocky parts. The film represents a major step in collaboration 
 between the Mexican and American film industries at the height of their 
 respective power and prestige\, a level of partnership possibly unmatched 
 until the Nuevo Cine Mexicano movement of the 1990s and 2000s. Adventures 
 of Casanova was also among the first films to make use of Mexico City’s 
 Estudios Churubusco\, one of the last legacy Mexican production studios 
 still operating today. Although critics at the time cited budget outlay as 
 the motivation behind the partnership\, Adventures of Casanova does stand 
 in contrast to the Mexploitation usually served up to the Anglo-American 
 audiences of the period. Roberto Gavaldón\, an icon of Mexican cinema\, 
 was perhaps the first Mexican director hired to lead an American crew 
 outside the United States. Gavaldón would go on to make one more 
 English-language feature\, The Littlest Outlaw (1955)\, before returning 
 fully to Mexican cinema. His film Macario\, another work shot at Estudios 
 Churubusco\, would compete at Cannes in 1960 alongside La Dolce Vita and 
 earn a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at that year's Academy 
 Awards.—Noah Brockman\n\nDCP. Production: Bryan Foy Productions. 
 Distribution: Eagle-Lion Films. Producers: Bryan Foy\, Leonard S. Picker. 
 Director: Roberto Gavaldón. Screenwriters: Crane Wilbur\, Walter Bullock\, 
 Karen DeWolf. Cinematographer: Jack Greenhalgh. With: Arturo de Córdova\, 
 Lucille Bremer\, Turhan Bey\, John Sutton\, George Tobias.\n\nRestoration 
 funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Restored by the 
 UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation from the 35mm 
 nitrate original picture negative\, nitrate fine grain\, nitrate track 
 negative and 16mm print. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment\, 
 Inc.\, Audio Mechanics\, Simon Daniel Sound\, FotoKem. Special thanks to 
 Harvard Film Archive\, Cinedigm.
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, UCLA Film & Television Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Jae Nguyen":MAILTO:nguyj@g.ucla.edu
CATEGORIES:Screening
CONTACT;CN="Jae Nguyen":MAILTO:nguyj@g.ucla.edu
STATUS:CONFIRMED
UID:LibCal-16741704
URL:https://calendar.library.ucla.edu/event/16741704
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