"Bride of trailer Trash!" at Oddball Films August 20, 2010

Event: “Bride of Trailer Trash!”. Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present a screening or rare B-Movie, “Art Film”, and vintage sleaze trailers from the 1960s and 1970s. 90% of these films sank without a trace, but their garish promotional trailers live on in the massive archives of Oddball Films. Plus, a reel of censored feature film clips (from a Los Angeles TV station): all the “good” bits on one reel, resulting in a bizarre, elliptical, and totally non-sequitur viewing experience, with the short film “We Live in a Trailer” and the 1937 trailer-home cartoon “Tin Can Tourist”. An evening tailored for the Attention Deficit Disordered!
Date: Friday, August 20, 2010 at 8:30PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or [email protected]
Web: http://www.oddballfilm.com/oddballftp/Bride_of_Trailer_Trash_PR.pdf
"Bride of Trailer Trash!”
Trashy Trailers
Screen at Oddball Films

On Friday, August 20th, Guest Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening rare B-Movie, Art Film and vintage sleaze film trailers, from the 1960s and 1970s. Ranging from 30 seconds to several minutes in length, these promotional shorts for coming attractions were often much more entertaining than the features they promote (and often contained footage not in the final film).
In addition, a reel of censored film clips will be presented as found. Marked “Mandatory Edits” and compiled presumably by the editor at the big Los Angeles TV station where this reel originated, these feature film clips were apparently deemed too violent, sexual, suggestive or shocking to be shown on TV. Jarring edits take you from the Civil War to WWII to the old West, to Ancient times and back, and from color to B &W. See flaming arrows in the chest, suggestive undergarments, bloody stumps, heaving breasts, and so much more! See Gary Cooper, Buddy Greco, Burt Lancaster, Charo, and a cast of thousands together in the boldest film that never was! Plus the shorts “We Live In A Trailer” and “Tin Can Tourist”. Showtime is 8:30PM and admission is $10.00. Seating is limited so RSVP is preferred to: [email protected] or 415-558-8117.

Trailers Include (but not limited to):

Dead Heat On A Merry-Go-Round; Chamber of Horrors; Munsters Go Home: The Third Day; The Ghost and Mr. Chicken; Hell’s Belles; The Female Bunch; Battle of the Amazons; The Virgin Witch; The Possession of Joel Delaney; Dr. Jekyll, Mrs. Hyde; Escape From/Battle for/Conquest of/the Planet of the Apes; Cabaret; Dog Day Afternoon; Airport 1975; Eat My Dust (w/ Ron Howard); Cover Girl Models; Switchblade Sisters; War Goddess; The Big Bus; Zero Population Growth; Little Fauss & Big Halsy; Grave of the Vampire; House of Exorcism; Return of Count Yorga; Play It Again, Sam; Girls in Trouble; Girly; The Student Body; Super Stooges Vs. The Wonder Women; Girls Are For Loving; 1000 Convicts and a Woman; Black Mama/White Mama; Face of Terror (w/ Arch Hall Jr.); Dimension 5; The Secret Passion; Lilith; Dear Heart; Flight From Ashiya; Woman of Straw; Moment to Moment; The Farmer’s Daughter; Obsession; Prime Cut; JD’s Revenge; Mein Kampf; Underworld USA (Sam Fuller); Black Gold; Winterhawk; The Master Gunfighter; Swiss Family Robinson; The Warlord; Take Her She’s Mine; Go-Go Mania; Hitler’s Harlots; Diary of a Young Writer; Raga; Pink Flamingos; Jabberwocky; State of Siege; Truck Stop Women; Seduction of Mimi; Andy Warhol’s Trash; Satutrday Night Fever; Star Wars; Klute; Cool Hand Luke; American Graffiti; WR: Mysteries of the Organism; The 1972 NY Erotic Film Festival; In Like Flynt; and many more!!

PLUS-

Mandatory Edits (color, B&W, c.1950-1965)
Wild compilation of violent, sexual and otherwise “not ready for primetime viewing” film clips, edited into one bizarre reel. It’s as if William Burroughs got into the Saturday afternoon TV-movie vault and applied his “cut-up technique”.

We Live in A Trailer (color, 1959)
Back by popular demand: trailer-trash in training.

Tin Can Tourist (Dir. Mannie Davis, B+W, 1937)
Farmer Al Falfa and his dog hit the road in their modern, gadget-loaded trailer home. “Riding along with a trailer / Happy as can be, / No rent to pay, no landlords, / No-sir-ee!”

Curator Biography:
Pete Gowdy (aka DJ Chas Gaudi) is host of San Francisco’s Shellac Shack, a weekly 78 rpm listening party and a DJ specializing in vintage sounds: soul, jazz, country, punk and new wave. A graduate of the Vassar College Film Program, he is an associate producer of Marc Huestis Presents, the long-running movie legend tributes at the Castro Theatre.

About Oddball Films
Oddball films is the film component of Oddball Film+Video, a stock footage company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like Milk, documentaries like The Summer of Love, television programs like Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world.  
Our films are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educationals, feature films, movie trailers, medical, industrial military, news out-takes and every genre in between. We’re actively working to present rarely screened genres of cinema as well as avant-garde and ethno-cultural documentaries, which expand the boundaries of cinema. Oddball Films is the largest film archive in Northern California and one of the most unusual private collections in the US. We invite you to join us in our weekly offerings of offbeat cinema.