The Movie Orgy

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The Movie Orgy
Title screen from trailer
Directed byJoe Dante
Produced byJon Davison
Edited byJoe Dante
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Movie Orgy is a 1968 film directed by

Philadelphia College of Art. At its longest, it ran for seven and a half hours[2] and could be considered the analog prelude to the mash-up videos and supercut edits now prevalent on digital platforms like YouTube and Vimeo
.

Summary

The film stands as a simultaneous celebration and campy tweaking of mid-20th century Americana, culling liberally from the B-movie cinema of Dante and Davison's youth (including brief clips from The Phantom Planet and Teenagers from Outer Space), early TV commercials, newsreel footage of early A-bomb tests, cartoons, westerns, sci-fi, bloopers and war movies as well as clips from children's TV shows its college-age audiences had forgotten they had seen.[3] Perhaps most memorable among these is the excerpted moment from Andy's Gang of a puppeteer-controlled cat and mouse performing “Jesus Loves Me".[4][1]

Elements of several features are revisited throughout the movie as recurrent, serialized comic motifs. Among these serialized movies in the longer-form version were College Confidential, Speed Crazy, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Beginning of the End, The Giant Gila Monster and The Amazing Colossal Man that were rotated in and out. Bizarre non-sequitur elements are featured in between the recurrent narrative vignettes, including strange advertisements (including one for Carter's Little Liver Pills) and educational films. The film was designed to be a free-flowing, communal audience experience. Interactivity (e.g. sing-alongs to showcased television show theme songs) was encouraged.

Among the numerous celebrities featured were

Richard M. Nixon, The Animals, Dean Martin, and comedians Abbott and Costello.[1][5]

The Movie Orgy comprises clips of copyrighted materials, and thus the film can only be shown for free when it plays museums and cinemas around the world. Joe Dante retains a copy.[6]

Production

The film, assembled without permission of the clips' owners, toured colleges and repertory cinemas[7] with support from Schlitz beer.[8][9][10]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Erickson, Glenn, "The Movie Orgy: Savant Screening Revival Notes". DVD Savant. April 26, 2008.
  2. ^ "TFH Exclusive: A Clip from THE MOVIE ORGY", Trailers From Hell.
  3. ^ Joe Dante about "The Movie Orgy" on Vimeo
  4. ^ Kehr, Dave, "Saved From Extinction: Classics and Curiosities", The New York Times, October 13, 2011.
  5. ^ "BAMcinématek 2016 series: Joe Dante at the Movies - The Movie Orgy". Brooklyn Academy of Music. August 7, 2016.
  6. ^ Bramesco, Charles, "Richard Nixon, Betty Boop, and Tampons: Revisiting Joe Dante's Infamous Movie Orgy". Vulture. January 2, 2019.
  7. ISBN 0-7134-8698-8
  8. ^ Klein, Joshua, "Interview: Joe Dante". The A.V. Club (The Onion). November 29, 2000
  9. ^ Abrams, Simon, "Like Going To Church: Joe Dante On The Movie Orgy". RogerEbert.com. August 8, 2016.
  10. ^ "Joe Dante Interview". Kinematrix.

External links

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