Monday Movies is Back!
Monday Movies Returns to NoPo!
We’ve got new movies and a new location, beginning tomorrow night at Mississippi Pizza Pub. Our new venue is spacious, kid-friendly and has a big bike barking lot next door. Come out and beat your Seasonal Affective Disorder with a brew and real 16mm vintage films from the archive of local historian, Tom Robinson. Show starts at 9PM, after the Spelling Bee.
Mississippi Pizza Pub is at:
3552 North Mississippi Ave., Portland,
Across the street from the Portland Rebuilding Center.
(503) 288-3231
www.mississippipizza.com
It has great food and a full bar. Look for the big neon sign out front. You can’t miss it.
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Upcoming Schedule
January 7, 2008
Beer Commercials a Go-Go!
Tom’s been busy buying even more of those retro liquor ads. See some of the classics you already love, plus reels of never shown ads, certain to make you thirsty. Pabst Blue Ribbon, Rainier, Budweiser, Miller, Old Milwaukee, Schlitz, Falstaff, Fall City Beer, and many more. In black & white and color.
January 21, 2008
Life in the Ghetto Night
The Poor Pay More (NET 1965 b&w 60 min.)
Q: Why would a store charge more for a 17” solid state TV console with hi-fidelity sound in a black neighborhood than a white neighborhood?
A: Because they could.
Learn about the high cost of “buying on time” for struggling ghetto families in the late 60’s. Limited options and ignorance of long-term costs made inner-city people exceptionally susceptible to high credit rates and impossible terms. The idea of “buy now, pay later” has been a long-standing tool of the Man™ to get richer faster and keep a brother down in the process.
January 28, 2008
Nuclear Disaster Night
A Day Called X (CBS 1957 b&w 30 minutes) Filmed on location in Portland during the cold-war. The entire Rose City is evacuated after a fictitious nuclear bomb goes off.
Nuclear Disaster, Radioactive Fallout (1954 US Navy b&w 30 minutes) training film for military personnel working the scene of a nuclear bomb blast.
Operation Scat (1954 McLain Brothers b&w 12 minutes) Still classified, this film is “not for public circulation". Mobile, Alabama evacuates 30,000 people in a A-bomb drill.
February 11, 2008
Rock & Roll & What a Rack!
See Jayne Mansfield in all her voluptuous glory in The Girl Can't Help It. (20th Century Fox, 1956 b&w 60 minutes) Featuring Little Richard, the Platters, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and Fats Domino! This is a rare television print of the complete film, in black & white and standard aspect screen ratio, on gorgeous Kodak stock that looks MUCH better than the faded color print you rent from Netfilx. One of the first rock & roll movies ever made, with performances by then-unknown megastars.
All films are actual 16mm reels of film projected in a film projector. All films are vintage originals, twenty to seventy years old. No dupes. No DVDs or video or tapes! Nothing digital ever!