Kaboom Classics: Dollywood
100 min.
This programme provides an exclusive look behind-the-scenes of Dollywood, the legendary Dutch puppet film studio. Dollywood was one of the major animation studios in The Netherlands in the 1940s-1970s and made hundreds of television and cinema commercials for international audiences, many of which won prizes. In recent years, Eye Filmmuseum invested in the restoration and digitisation of not only the Dollywood film collection, but also preserved a unique collection of photos and original puppets and props. A selection of these beautiful archival objects will be showcased during Kaboom. The films have been selected by three special guests, who will also be present during the screening: Louise Geesink, daughter of Joop Geesink, the studios founding father; Arie den Draak, great connoisseur of Geesink's oeuvre, and Leenke Ripmeester, curator at Eye Filmmuseum.
Program curator: Mette Peters.
Bellezza Femminile
Geesink, also known as 'the Duivendrecht Disney' produced this commercial for Super-Iride clothing dye, in which a woman wearing drab clothes at a ball is not asked to dance. In desperation, she turns to Dr. Faust who conjures up Mr. Santana.
Allarme Per Venere
Firefighters arrive to examine a woman's hair. She appears to be suffering from dandruff! But Brillantine from the Tricogen brand works wonders.
Beech-Nut: Animals
Cheerful singing animals praise the different flavours of the fruit stripe Beech-Nut chewing gum: "More flavour to chew, more flavours to choose. The flavour starts lively, the flavour stays lively." A commercial for American television.
Heinz Ketchup: Vice President
The vice-president of Heinz explains the ketchup production process and demonstrates how to easily get ketchup out of the bottle. Or not? Anyway: "No other ketchup tastes like Heinz."
Piccolo, Saxo and Company
An animation for Philips in which a musical family of string instruments goes out to meet new friends. On their way they meet other instruments such as the family of the woodwinds, saxophones and percussion instruments. In the end they all make music together and a symphony is born!
Dutchy: A Dream Comes True
Dutchy works as a farmer on a farm and dreams about the production and worldwide distribution of his dairy products. Commissioned film by the Dutch Dairy Bureau to promote Dutch dairy products: world food no.1.
Prince Electron
The fairy tale of Princess Philippa Ray who leaves for a faraway land to marry her Prince Charming. Thanks to the modern home entertainment devices from Philips, her subjects can continue to enjoy her magnificent singing voice.
Queen’s Beer: Far West Post
Popeye in the Far West! In this commercial for Queen's Beer the sheriff goes after the robbers when the stagecoach is robbed. The woman he saves wants to fall into his arms, but unfortunately he is already taken. Because what spinach is to Popeye, Queen's beer is to the sheriff.
Ballantine Brewer's Gold Ale: Stage Coach
A commercial for a beer by American company Ballantine. Bandits raid a stagecoach and drink the captured ale. "It's the ale with the big, big taste. So if you enjoy good living, good eating, you'll enjoy Ballantine ale with brewer's gold."
Fifty Pairs of Hands for One Single Frame
Promotional film for the Dollywood studio aimed at ‘advertising men’. The documentary images give a nice insight into the different steps in the production process of the stop-motion film Pleasure Revived (1960), such as the storyboards, the music, the building of the sets, manufacturing the puppets, animating with the stop-motion camera and the final editing.
Player’s Cigarettes: Pleasure Revived
Watch out for the Eskimos when you go North Pole fishing. If things go wrong, they'll come to your rescue with fish, cod liver oil, or... Player's cigarettes.
Life is Nothing without Philips
In the daily life of this hippo family, the Philips appliances are indispensable: the iron and mixer for mother, the record player and shaver for father, the tape recorder for the children, and the television for the whole family. It's crystal clear: life is nothing without Philips.
Star of the Screen
A commercial for film projectors! Shooting on a film set begins. Slowly the camera pulls back, until we get to see the real stars: Philips' film projectors. This film was originally made in 3D and has now been reconstructed in its full stereoscopic glory.
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