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Bill and Coo Plot: The feathered residents of Chirpendale are terrorized by an evil black crow by the name of "The Black Menace". But to the citizen's rescue comes a brave young taxi puller named Bill!
Also at The Internet Archive
From The Paris Review, and an overview at TCM
clip:A Tour Of Chirpendale
Dr. Strangefilm Case #003: Bill and Coo
Also at The Internet Archive
From The Paris Review, and an overview at TCM
clip:A Tour Of Chirpendale
Dr. Strangefilm Case #003: Bill and Coo
What’s that? You’ve never heard of Bill and Coo? Well, the pair were the eponymous stars of a 1948 feature film that earned its producer, Hollywood documentarian Ken Murray, an honorary Academy Award for its “novel and entertaining use of” the movie medium. The entertaining part of that claim is one we’ll look into shortly, but no one can argue with “novel.” After all, how many feature-length dramas have ever been shot on a 30- by 15-foot set with an all-bird cast?
Love it... this is the perfect ending to a day of birding.
I hope this film spills over into my dreams tonight.
posted by quazichimp at 11:48 PM on May 31, 2014
I hope this film spills over into my dreams tonight.
posted by quazichimp at 11:48 PM on May 31, 2014
I just dropped in to say that I saw "Bill and Coo" on TV. Back in the 1970s, the golden age of syndication, you could see literally *anything* on the 4:00 movie. Silent movies? Subtitled Truffaut movies? Movies starring birds?
posted by acrasis at 8:12 AM on June 1, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by acrasis at 8:12 AM on June 1, 2014 [1 favorite]
An hour! A whole hour of this!
What on earth happened to American culture after the war? I still don't understand it. How did the late 40s and 50s become so... infantile?
posted by bicyclefish at 9:33 AM on June 1, 2014
What on earth happened to American culture after the war? I still don't understand it. How did the late 40s and 50s become so... infantile?
posted by bicyclefish at 9:33 AM on June 1, 2014
So once again a crow is typecast as the villain instead of a more ecologically plausible hawk, falcon, or owl (and how about mammalian villains: cats, dogs, foxes, raccoons-- all would love to have a small bird snack).
posted by Pyry at 10:48 AM on June 1, 2014
posted by Pyry at 10:48 AM on June 1, 2014
Dance bird. DANCE!
posted by Halogenhat at 2:41 PM on June 1, 2014
posted by Halogenhat at 2:41 PM on June 1, 2014
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