Summer of the Chew Toy Soul (2011)

Actors: Tristan Newcomb (actor), Tristan Newcomb (actor), Tristan Newcomb (actor), Tristan Newcomb (writer), Tristan Newcomb (composer), Tristan Newcomb (director), Tristan Newcomb (editor), Tristan Newcomb (producer), Simon Quiroz (producer), Roberto L. Rosales (producer), Tsuyoshi Oyama (composer), Sarah Sharit (actress),

Plot: A young lad (played by the puppet Dobo) must spend the summer with his alcoholic father. But with no television or video games to pass the time, will mind-altering chemicals and head-trauma hallucinations be enough to survive the lethal boredom? And will his father's flirtation with suicide pay off, or will it simply become yet another ambition that he fails to follow through on?

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery,

Pickled (2010)

Actors: Montetré (director), Montetré (editor), Montetré (producer), Montetré (actor), Montetré (writer), Ryan Cloutier (producer), Ryan Cloutier (actor), Rob Taylor (editor), Richard Fueller (actor), William Thoma (editor), Tyler Ryan (actor), Asher Sandberg-Lewis (actor), Bobby Ryan (actor), Shana Cox (actress), Sam Taylor (actor),

Genres: Mystery,

Puppet Love (2004)

Actors: Michael C. Smith (actor), Eric Callero (actor), Eric Callero (producer), Eric Callero (writer), Eric Callero (director), Nathan McGee (actor), Brandon Pane (actor),

Plot: A young filmmaker falls asleep trying to come up with ideas for his latest film. In his dream, we see two sock puppets who fall in love at first sight. But the evil man will have no part in such happiness and takes the girl away. Now the boy must save her and rid the evil man of their presence all before the filmmaker awakes.

Keywords: director, dream-sequence, filmmaking, filmmaking, good-versus-evil, hostage, kiss, love, psychopath, puppet
Genres: Animation, Fantasy, Romance, Short,

Wee Sing in the Big Rock Candy Mountains (1991)

Actors: Susan Hagen Nipp (writer), Susan Hagen Nipp (writer), Susan Hagen Nipp (miscellaneous crew), Susan Hagen Nipp (writer), Pamela Beall (writer), Pamela Beall (writer), Pamela Beall (miscellaneous crew), Pamela Beall (writer), David Poulshock (writer), David Poulshock (miscellaneous crew), David Poulshock (producer), Cal Scott (actor), Cal Scott (composer), Claudia Sloan (director), Claudia Sloan (writer),

Genres: Family,
Taglines: A tempting tuneful treat

Wee Sing in the Big Rock Candy Mountains (1991)

Actors: Susan Hagen Nipp (writer), Susan Hagen Nipp (writer), Susan Hagen Nipp (miscellaneous crew), Susan Hagen Nipp (writer), Pamela Beall (writer), Pamela Beall (writer), Pamela Beall (miscellaneous crew), Pamela Beall (writer), David Poulshock (writer), David Poulshock (miscellaneous crew), David Poulshock (producer), Cal Scott (actor), Cal Scott (composer), Claudia Sloan (director), Claudia Sloan (writer),

Genres: Family,
Taglines: A tempting tuneful treat

Split (1989)

Actors: Gene Evans (actor), Joan Taylor (actress), John J. Flynn (actor), James Taylor (actor), Debra Gordon (actress), Joan Bechtel (writer), Wendy Bowers (actress), Joan Bechtel (actress), Joan Bechtel (actress), Chris Shaw (writer), Chris Shaw (composer), Chris Shaw (actor), Chris Shaw (director), Chris Shaw (editor), Robert Peterson (actor),

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: It's the cracked ones that let the light into the world

Quotes:

Agency Director: You think this guy Starker is nothing? You're right! He is nothing!He gets nothing out of life so he fixates on some trinket and decides it's precious. It's ridiculous. But it's dangerous. There are over a billion losers out there who all want to believe they're something. Some guy says he found the answer? That's how it starts. Religion. Health food. Aerobics. Pantyhose. Anything... Everything to distract them from the fact that they're bored, meaningless, impotent nothings waiting to die. Your job is to watch the fixations. Where do they come from? Some guy wants to make a buck. That's okay. That's productive. But there are whackos out there. Whackos! Guys so lost in a dream, they don't care about anything. Not food, not money, not sex. Nothing! One idea... one fixation from one whacko can fuck up everything! Look at Christ. Oh! Now Christ needs a car, a wife, a steady job. That's okay. That's productive. But when he was first out Christ created abstinance, disarray, squalor. It took four hundred years to fix that mess!

Starker: Look! It's a straw!

Transient: You had the rise of the first Great Age and then a fall into chaos. And then a rise again: the Classical Age and then another fall: The Dark Ages. And then a rise again: The Renassance and right on into the Modern Age. And now we are on the brink of the fall that could end everything.

The Big Fun Carnival (1957)

Actors: George Pal (director), Mae Questel (actress), Max Fleischer (producer), George Pal (producer), Isadore Klein (writer), George Pal (writer), Dr. Seuss (writer), Winston Sharples (composer), Shamus Culhane (director), Hans Fischerkoesen (director), Dave Fleischer (director), Louis M. Heyward (producer), Louis M. Heyward (writer), Marc Daniels (director), George Steiner (composer),

Plot: The first of a series of 12 compilation features (number 1-12)made for theatres to use as a Saturday Matinee offering aimed strictly at children. Marian Stafford, folk-singer Jared Reed, and The Bunin Puppets appear before and after each cartoon short. All of the cartoon shorts were originally released by Paramount, and included "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1943)" - Betty Boop's "Crazy Town (1932)" - "The Silly Goose/Dumme Ganslein, Der (1945)" - "The Busy Little Bears (1939)" - "Toys Will Be Toys (1949)", and other Paramount cartoons, shorts and a couple of the audience-participation Screen Song singalong shorts. Strictly sold on a "Park-the-kids-and-go-shopping" or "Cheap Baby-Sitting" basis, and, since it was geared toward the kids, there was also a bath-room break intermission about halfway through the film. New footage and some of the cartoons in Technicolor, but a few of the cartoons were black-and-white.

Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, archive-footage, betty-boop, compilation-film, follow-the-bouncing-ball, intermission, noveltoon, part-live-action
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy,
Taglines: The Youngster's Own Show (original poster) Fun For All Youngster's On The Big, Big Screen (original poster) Cartoons, Laughs, Screen Songs, Sports, Puppets - Something For All Youngsters To See And Nejoy (original poster)

Pinocchio (1957)

Actors: Walter Slezak (actor), David Susskind (producer), Mickey Rooney (actor), Jerry Colonna (actor), Paul Bogart (director), Carlo Collodi (writer), Stubby Kaye (actor), Noel Taylor (costume designer), Matt Mattox (actor), Sondra Lee (actress), Alec Wilder (composer), Fran Allison (actress), Martyn Green (actor), Hanya Holm (miscellaneous crew), Ruth Mata (actress),

Genres: Family,

Max Liebman Presents: Big Time (1955)

Actors: Martha Raye (actress), Milton Berle (actor), Ray Bolger (actor), Fred Clark (actor), Max Liebman (director), Max Liebman (producer), Sylvia Lewis (actress), Rod Alexander (actor), Bambi Linn (actress), Brenda Forbes (actress), The Baird Puppets (actor), Charles Sanford (composer),

Genres: Comedy, Music,

Ziegfeld Follies (1945)

Actors: Gene Kelly (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), William Bailey (actor), Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (actor), William Frawley (actor), Rex Evans (actor), Fred Astaire (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Peter Lawford (actor),

Plot: In heaven, showman 'Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.' (qv) fondly recalls his first Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1907. Even from heaven, he is hoping that he can, for one last time, create that same magic by mounting one last follies. As he thinks about who he would like to appear in these follies, he is assisted in realizing his fantasy, at least in his own mind, by such luminaries as 'Fred Astaire' (qv), 'Edward Arnold (I)' (qv), 'Lucille Ball', 'Marion Bell' (qv), 'Lucille Bremer' (qv), 'Fanny Brice' (qv), 'Cyd Charisse' (qv), 'Judy Garland' (qv), 'Kathryn Grayson' (qv), 'Lena Horne' (qv), 'Gene Kelly (I)' (qv), 'James Melton (I)' (qv), 'Victor Moore (I)' (qv), 'Virginia O'Brien' (qv), 'Red Skelton' (qv), 'Esther Williams (I)' (qv), 'Keenan Wynn' (qv), and, of course, a bevy of beautiful girls.

Keywords: 1940s, actress, bag-of-golf-clubs, ballerina, ballet, ballroom-dancing, bird-on-shoulder, bubble, camera-shot-of-a-woman's-legs, carousel
Genres: Comedy, Musical,
Taglines: Flashing...smashing SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT! DAZZLING IN ITS BEAUTY...PACKED WITH GLORIOUS Melodies! (original print media ad - many caps) Greatest Production Since The Birth Of Motion Pictures!

Quotes:

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Children play with the dreams of tomorrow. And old men play with the memories of yesterday.

Fred Astaire: I'm sorry, I can't quite place you. What line of business are you in?::Gene Kelly: Well, I dance.::Fred Astaire: Oh, at home, for the folks? Picnics and that kind of thing?::Gene Kelly: Oh, no, no. In public.::Fred Astaire: On street corners?::Gene Kelly: Oh, no. On the screen. Motion pictures! You do go to pictures that have dancing in them, don't you?::Fred Astaire: I try to see them all.::Gene Kelly: Did you see a picture called "Cover Girl"?::Fred Astaire: Yes.::Gene Kelly: Well, who did all the dancing in that?::Fred Astaire: You're not Rita Hayworth?::Gene Kelly: No I'm not... Ginger.

[first lines]::Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Ah... Saturday, September twenty fifth. Another heavenly day. Ah, yes. Always a heavenly day.

Fred Astaire: [sings] Here's to the beautiful ladies / Here's to those wonderful girls / Adele's and Molly's, Lucille's and Polly's / You'll find them all at the Ziegfeld Follies.

Fred Astaire: [sings] This is the mixture to start the picture / So bring on those beautiful girls.

Number Please Telephone Operator: Number, please?

Lawyer's Client: [to the Lawyer] For goodness sake, will you pay him the two dollars.

'Love' Number: [sings] Love can be a cup of sorrow, Love can be a lie. / Love can make you wake tomorrow and sigh.

Fred Astaire: Hello.::Gene Kelly: How are you?::Fred Astaire: How's that folks?::Gene Kelly: What's new?::Fred Astaire: I'm great.::Gene Kelly: That's good.::Fred Astaire: Ha-ha!::Gene Kelly: Knock wood.::Fred Astaire: Well, well.::Gene Kelly: That's life.::Fred Astaire: What do you know?::Gene Kelly: How's the wife?::Fred Astaire: Gotta run.::Gene Kelly: Oh, my.::Fred Astaire: Ta-ta.::Gene Kelly: Olive oil.::Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire: Bye, bye.

[last lines]::'Beauty' Number: [sings] And then someone comes into view / And suddenly you find it's true / That love is beauty too.