And his "Explosion of a Motor Car" also 1900 Rob
On 15/12/2012 05:18, "Ryder White" <ryder.wh...@gmail.com> wrote: > How about "How It Feels To Be Run Over" (1900) by the Hepworth > Manufacturing Co? Potentially the earliest film to feature an automobile > (but I'm not putting that on the record). > > RW > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:13 PM, David Baker <dbak...@hvc.rr.com> wrote: > >> Powerful automobile related imaginings occurred in the early sixties >> beginning with Disney's flying car flubber apotheosis in The Absent >> Minded Professor (1961) >> followed by the anthropomorphic VW Herbie films beginning in 1963 >> including The Love Bug (1968). >> If you will allow television episodes, the 1965 single season sitcom >> "My Mother The Car" in which a man's mother is reincarnated as a 1928 >> Porter Touring Car >> might be considered. >> The seriality in Andy Warhol's "Car Crash Paintings" of 1963 might be >> thought of filmically. >> The first appearance of the Munster's Koach in the television sitcom >> The Munsters (1964-66) was a marvel merging hot rod hybridity and >> familial functionality, >> Grandpa Munster's vehicle >> called the Drag-u-la, from the episode called Hot Rod Herman was >> essentially a super charged coffin >> on wheels,it also appeared in the 1966 film >> Munster Go Home. >> >> A precursor to the Munster Koach might be found in an uproarious >> 1934 episode of The Little Rascals >> called "Hi' Neighbor" in which Spanky and his gang build a mad ad hoc >> fire truck >> to meet the challenge of an affluent newcomer's girlfriend wooing toy >> car. >> >> Not of the imagination but still interesting is a short film document >> on Youtube and elsewhere >> of the first Indy 500 race, May 30,1911 >> complete with a "spectacular accident". >> >> The ecstatic (neon-lit?) cruising footage from Floyd Mutrux's Dusty >> and Sweets McGee (1971) >> photographed by William A. Fraker >> which is said to have influenced George Lucas's American Graffiti is a >> personal favorite. >> >> I can't fail to mention Kathryn Bigelow's The Loveless >> and the unforgettable RV roving vampires in her Near Dark. >> >> The car race in Rebel Without A Cause comes to mind. >> >> I recollect a video Fred Worden exhibited at Anthology several years >> ago bound entirely >> by travel in a moving automobile on a Thruway (the title escapes me). >> >> Ernie Gehr's Auto-collider series. >> (Additionally Ernie's digital interlaced masterpiece Crystal Palace >> (2002) was shot from the open >> window of a moving car.) >> >> Then there is Michael Bay's Transformers (2007) which I have not seen >> but understand involves four wheeled transformational entities. >> >> -DB >> >> On Dec 14, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Bryan Konefsky wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a >>> critical studies course that looks at different ways the automobile >>> has been imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from >>> ya'll with titles of films that you think might be useful to explore/ >>> expand this idea and readings that might also dovetail themes that >>> might be explored. >>> >>> Do know that my pal Antoni Pinent recently turned me on to a great >>> text titled Car Fetish. >>> >>> OK, let's hear what ya got! >>> best, >>> -- >>> Bryan Konefsky >>> director, Experiments in Cinema >>> el presidente, Basement Films >>> lecturer, Dept of Cinematic Arts UNM >>> visiting lecturer, UCSC >>> board of advisors, Ann Arbor Film Festival >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FrameWorks mailing list >>> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >>> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing > list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listi > nfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
