16mm Cartoons: Raunchy, Sexy & Risqué

16mm Cartoons: Raunchy, Sexy & Risqué Back in the 'pre-code' era of the 1920s and early 1930s, animated cartoons were made to entertain the adults in the audience. The results were often sexually suggestive, if not borderline explicit. Much later, with the long overdue relaxation of old censorship codes, independent and experimental animators of the 1960s and beyond became free to openly explore the raunchy and risqué once more. Salacious sexiness, lustful adultery, queerness, Peeping Toms, and other questionable—or perfectly human—adult behaviors were only some of the wonderfully 'vulgar' themes present in animated shorts made in both eras. The Roxy welcomes animation archivist and historian Tommy José Stathes to showcase a curated selection of these envelope-pushing cartoons of yesteryear. This 16mm presentation includes some of the most outrageous and hilarious examples he's found over the past 25 years of collecting vintage archival prints. The screening concludes with an infamous 1920s hardcore pornographic cartoon; clearly intended for a more mature audience. Our 90 minute film program includes an intermission and will be followed by a live Q&A session with Stathes. Suggested age: 18+ Roxy Cinema hereby presents our 13th 'Peculiar Puppets' retrospective of forgotten vintage short films featuring hand puppets, ventriloquist dolls, marionettes, and stop motion creatures—all filmed in the 1930s through the 1970s. This peculiar potpourri of unnamed surprises is programmed by early animation archivist and historian Tommy José Stathes, and prints are hand-selected from his personal 16mm film archive. Warning: You may find some of the offerings to be rather unsettling, and possibly even creepy! 90-minute film presentation includes an intermission and will be followed by a live Q&A session with Stathes.

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