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By: Elliott Bledsoe
Date: 4th Apr 08
Format: Festival
Mood: Whimsical
What:
Silly Symphonies: Renegades and Fine Romance
Where:
Cinema A, Australian Cinémathèque, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank
When:
Sun 6 April - Sun April 13
How much:
Free
Back in the early days of Disney—before the hand of God would have had just cause to smite the company executives for committing idolatry—Walt also had a series of animated shorts that didn’t include iconic characters at all. Silly Symphonies, as they were dubbed, were reworks of classic tales and nursery rhymes set to a range of musical compositions.
Not the darling of social memory like the skeleton band in The Skeleton Dance, this instalment of animated musical mayhem does feature the death of a songbird mid-serenade. But who killed cock robin? Can a string of incompetent police birds using tactics reminiscent of Bjelke-Peterson’s time catch the feathered fiend?
harp-playing spider with ill intentions, swooning hens and proud cocks, a pretty pussy bull and a couple of bugs in love.
Everyone loves a good session of cartoon watching. Head to GoMA and make your Sunday afternoon one of all singing, all dancing ditties in Technicolor!