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“Hollywood Steps Out” (1941) ― Merrie Melodies Cartoon.

“Hollywood Steps Out” is a 1941 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short directed by Tex Avery and produced by Leon Schlesinger. The cartoon features caricatures of over forty contemporary Hollywood celebrities (along with guest appearances).

PLOT
A group of “caricatured” Hollywood stars is having an expensive dinner at Ciro's nightclub in West Hollywood. The first stars seen are Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Adolphe Menjou and Norma Shearer. Greta Garbo, working as a cigarette girl, sells a pack to Cary Grant, then lights his cigarette by striking a match on her very large foot.

Edward G. Robinson asks Ann Sheridan “How's the Oomph girl tonight?”. Sheridan responds by uttering the word “oomph” several times.

Warner Bros. staffers Henry Binder and Leon Schlesinger are shown. A seat is reserved for Bette Davis, as is an extra-wide sofa for Kate Smith. More seats are reserved for the characters of the Blondie films, including a fire hydrant for Daisy the dog.

In the cloakroom, Johnny Weissmuller checks a coat with Paulette Goddard that reveals his Tarzan outfit. Sally Rand leaves her trademark feather fans behind and is presumably naked.

James Cagney prepares Humphrey Bogart and George Raft for a risky task: pitching pennies.

Harpo Marx gives Garbo a hot foot, who reacts with a weary “Ouch”. Clark Gable turns his head around 180 degrees to observe a blonde girl, whom he follows offscreen.

Bing Crosby introduces the evening's entertainment, interrupted frequently by a racehorse with an apparently unconscious jockey. Crosby presents conductor Leopold Stokowski, who wears a snood before performing “Ahí, viene la conga” (also known as “Here comes the conga” in English).

The conga inspires Dorothy Lamour to invite James Stewart to dance with her, who stutters, stammers, and runs away scared. Gable dances by, following the girl he saw earlier. Tyrone Power dances with Sonja Henie. Frankenstein's monster dances stiffly and woodenly. The Three Stooges abuse each other in rhythm to the beat. Oliver Hardy's dance partner is revealed to be twin blonde women initially hidden by his obese frame. Cesar Romero dances clumsily with Rita Hayworth. Mickey Rooney, sitting with Judy Garland, is presented with an expensive bill, who turns to ask his Andy Hardy movie father (Lewis Stone) for a heart-to-heart talk. In the next scene, they are seen washing dishes. Gable is still pursuing the girl.

Crosby then introduces Sally Rand (identified as “Sally Strand”), performing a bubble dance to “I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles”, as the camera cuts between the men's reactions and her dancing. Spectators at various tables include:

Kay Kyser, William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Ronald Colman, Errol Flynn, Wallace Beery, and C. Aubrey Smith, who wolf-whistle in unison (by saying “Baby!”), Peter Lorre, Henry Fonda, whose “mother” pulls him away by his ear (in its reference to The Aldrich Family), J. Edgar Hoover, Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher, Buster Keaton, and Mischa Auer, asked by Ned Sparks if they are having a good time, and Jerry Colonna, who reveals an invisible character next to him called “Yehudi”.

Now that Strand is standing still on the stage, this allows Harpo Marx an opportunity to shoot her bubble with a slingshot. The bubble explodes on impact, and she reacts with shock, as it reveals she is wearing a barrel, held up by suspenders.

Meanwhile, Gable has finally caught up to the girl he was chasing and insists she kiss him. The girl turns out to be Groucho Marx in drag.

CAST
Kent Rogers as James Cagney, Cary Grant, Edward G. Robinson, Clark Gable, Ned Sparks, Peter Lorre, Groucho Marx, Mickey Rooney, James Stewart, J. Edgar Hoover, Henry Fonda, Bing Crosby, Kay Kyser, and Lewis Stone.

Mel Blanc as Jerry Colonna.

Sara Berner as Greta Garbo, Ann Sheridan, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour, and Henry Fonda's mother.

Directed by Supervision: Fred Avery
Story by: Dave Monahan
Produced by: Leon Schlesinger
Starring Kent Rogers, Sara Berner, and Mel Blanc
Edited by: Treg Brown
Music by: Carl W. Stalling
Animation by: Rod Scribner
Color Process: Technicolor
Production Company: Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Dates: May 24, 1941 (original); October 2, 1948 (Blue Ribbon reissue).

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Witch Hazel is one of the most underrated Looney Tunes character.

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When lasses forget their glasses... Marilyn Monroe portraying the near-sighted Pola Debevoise in "How to Marry a Millionaire"......

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

For the United States Bicentennial in 1976, the government funded one of the wildest short films ever made.

Created by animator Vincent Collins & produced by the United States Information Agency, the film goes on a kaleidoscopic journey through iconic
American symbols.

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Michelle Pfeiffer really decapitated three mannequins with a whip in a single take while filming BATMAN RETURNS (1992).

One of the coolest practical movie moments ever captured.

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In Fight Club, Tyler Durden secretly appears in single-frame flashes before the Narrator ever meets him. One of these blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments shows Tyler disguised as a hotel waiter—a detail most viewers never notice on their first watch.

Your subconscious already met Tyler Durden before the Narrator did.

In Fight Club (1999), director David Fincher deliberately inserted four subliminal flashes of Tyler Durden before the character is formally introduced. Each appearance lasts just a single frame—about 1/24th of a second—placing it near the threshold of conscious perception. The effect was designed to make audiences feel that something was off without immediately understanding why, reflecting the Narrator’s own fractured state of mind.

One of these hidden appearances shows Tyler briefly standing in the background of a hotel scene as a waiter, visible only for an instant. Most moviegoers never noticed the flashes in theaters, and it wasn’t until home video made frame-by-frame viewing possible that fans were able to track down all four of Tyler’s secret appearances.

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Happy 100th Birthday, Marilyn Monroe! https://t.co/E8lW2c6aO9

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Marilyn Monroe's Personal Library Contained 400 Books—Here Are Their Titles https://t.co/aJX0TGUFDp

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Sad to read this news today. One of the most instrumental people in the creation of Star Wars.

Without her editing skills on A New Hope and ROTJ, we would not have the franchise that we have today.

RIP Marcia Lucas...thanks for the incredible work you gifted us with in life.

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"Sledgehammer" is the biggest hit of Peter Gabriel's solo career and his single #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (1986). The revolutionary music video, directed by Stephen R. Johnson with animations from Aardman (the same as those from Wallace & Gromit), used stop-motion, claymation and pixilation in an unprecedented way at the time. Peter Gabriel spent 16 hours lying motionless under a glass plate while animators moved objects frame by frame, the entire clip took almost a week of insane recording. Result? It won a record 9 awards at the 1987 MTV VMAs (including Video of the Year) and is to this day the most played music video in MTV history.

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The Handmade Magic of Claymation and The Films That Shaped the Form https://t.co/aGuX8wNcOB

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The antidote for brain rot is going back to longer formats: reading books, essays.

Reading will help you rebuild your focus and attention span.

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Watched "Superman: The Magnetic Telescope (1942)."

It’s genuinely incredible how well the Fleischer aesthetic holds up 80 years later.

Lights falling off the comet and hitting the streets is a masterclass in hand-drawn cinematography.

Honourable mention: the Rotoscoping. Gives Supes a fluid motion,a tangible presence in the frame, you can feel the momentum when he flies.

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