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On Thursday I attended a screening of the 1935 “lost” film “A Murder in Harlem”. ”Murder” is considered a “race” film, which were movies made in the early 10′s, 20′s, and 30′s for a black audience and eventually evolved into “Shaft” and the  Blaxplotation Cinema of the 70′s, and Tyler Perry. Race films in those days were not huge money makers, and are generally considered the first wave of Independent Cinema considering they usually had to put up their own money, or find backing outside of a studio.You notice I also used the term “lost”, “lost” films are movies that were made in the early decades of cinema that all negatives were either thought lost, or destroyed. Many people, studios, and filmmakers of the time didn’t realize that people would enjoy their films as historical artifacts, as well as entertainment centuries later. So, a lot of movies were just thrown away or stored improperly and wasted away, after their intial theater runs. Now Martin Scorsese heads an organization dedicated to the preservation of film. They continue to find “lost” films all the time, Russians on the other hand have always preserved film and had to give us some early American film treasures we didn’t have prints for. (that’s another story that a google search can help you with)

“A Murder in Harlem” was found in a warehouse in Tyler Texas in 1983 along with many other “race” films. I once was told by a Locations Director on a film that “Tyler Texas is the most racist town in America!” So how a bunch of films created for an all black audience ended up being preserved there, I’m not sure. Although interesting, that is not the reason for this post. What was interesting to me was the story itself, how the narrative unfolded and what it means in the scheme of film history. You see a guy named Akira Kurosawa, you may have heard of him, made a film called “Rashomon” in 1950, you may have heard of it. If not, I’ll tell you that us film nerds love it, it took the world by storm, won the Golden Lion in Venice and pushed Japanese and Asian cinema into the spotlight. One thing “Rashomon” has always been given credit for “inventing” in film language is now called The Rashomon Effect.

“The Rashomon effect is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.” 

In the film a rape and a murder occur, 4 different characters give 4 conflicting accounts of the story, the same scene is shown 4 times in the 4 different ways each had explained it as happening. It rocked  the film world, and coined a psychology term that is still in use today by Doctors.

Now enter, “A Murder in Harlem” a film which was “lost” and that was made for black audiences in the 30′s (meaning not a lot of people saw it) and it tells its story in the exact same way. A white woman is murdered, the black nightman is accused of the murder. It goes to trial and the witnesses tell their story. Each time it flashes back to how THEY perceived it as happening, and each time it is different! The only difference between “Murder” and “Rashomon” is that Akira Kurosawa never tells you which account was correct, and “Murder” shows you what really happens finally revealing what the white woman went through. If you read the definition of the psychological term posted earlier, you will see that “A Murder in Harlem” did just that, only 15 years earlier! I’m using a lot of exclamation points! Because I couldn’t believe it then! and I’m still not really believing it now!

Oscar Micheaux

If some of the big wigs of film history/nerdery, like Scorsese, Tarantino, and Roger Ebert saw this film, it would re-write history. The problem with “A Murder in Harlem” is that it isn’t a very good movie. For 1935 it is shot like the earliest “talkie” films of the era. There is nothing about it that stands out, except for the way in which the narrative is told. Also the director, Oscar Micheaux, made about 39 other films and a few others were really, really good, so “A Murder in Harlem” is hardly on anyone’s must see list, regardless of the fact that it was lost and then found. Heck, even the wikipedia page for “Murder” slightly hints at the fact how the narrative is constructed, but it also shows you how little a following the films has. The wiki is like 3 sentences long.  So that’s that. It looks like there are some ways the see the movie but no company has made a decent print, and it’s only available in a package of some of the lost race films. Although “A Murder in Harlem” has been found, I believe it’s legacy, is still lost.

http://articles.latimes.com/2004/dec/31/entertainment/et-racefilm31

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0584778/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_Harlem

I’ve always been fascinated by the art of animation. Growing up, Saturday morning was the most exciting time of my entire week, I’d wake up and race to the television making sure I didn’t miss a single second of the action! Soon Nickelodeon came to be and so the shine and luster of Saturday morning cartoons dimmed. My children wouldn’t even know what you were talking about if you mentioned Saturday morning cartoons, might as well be monday at 7pm cartoons. Computers have taken animation to an entirely new world, and have pervaded not only the entertainment world, but also the medical field and beyond. Some filmmakers choose animation to tell their story because they feel they have no limitations in the medium, James Cameron’s AVATAR being the latest and greatest example, which is comprised of about 98% computer created images. Another recent example is Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, a personal favorite, (whistle.tick.tick.)

When I was in college, at Eastern New Mexico University, I worked with a guy named Matt Guastaferro at KENW(PBS), now a head designer and animator at CNN,  and he told me about how amazing the animation department was at ENMU, and how the dept. had very high-end equipment, and students could basically use it 24/7. Ingtrigued, I joined the animation courses and never looked back. I had originally believed falsely, that computer animation was simple. By George, it is not simplistic in any form or fashion. Some of the projects students were creating  clocked in at about 5-10 seconds and would take them an entire semester to create! Yuck! I don’t have the time, or patience to sit at a computer for 4 months to create 5 seconds. As a filmmaker I’m used to a much faster process of storytelling. It was at this time that I met Matt G.’s brother, Mike. He was working on a South Park esque cartoon scene that he built and was animating. This was more my style, only I have little to no artistic ability to draw characters. I sat down with him for a few classes and was Obi Won to his Qui Gon.

I learned a lot from Mike, more than I learned from the course work. As the semester went on I could not, for the life of me, decide what my final project would be. Most of the students would create a very complex final project and then 5-6 very simple animations and compile a reel. I had no reel, I had NOTHING! It was December and a week a way from the final presentation. I was at my Mother-in-law’s house and she had a very nice “precious moments” nativity scene set-up. Inspiration took flight! I would photograph the precious moment statues and then put them in an animated world of real world images! I didn’t have to draw or create anything, it already existed, all I had to do was make it move! GENIUS! So I began photographing, it took me a few days but I finally had all my images. The day of the final( I do not joke) I began animating everything, I took on a real serious tone, I was recording audio for the different characters in different voices and I was trying to make a real serious piece. A Co-worker at KENW walked in and saw what I was doing, I played a little bit back for him. “HA HA, that’s hilarious man, good work!” Hilarious? It was not supposed to be funny! IT’S THE BIRTH OF CHRIST! Alas, he was right. The animation was so crude, and the “precious moments” statues so sweet, it looked hilarious. So, if it looked funny, I’d make it funny! I made the three wisemen a lyric-forgetting barbershop trifecta, the angel a hungry, late for something, grouch, and I made baby Jesus into Old Dirty Bastard, who at the time was going by the moniker, “Big Baby Jesus”.

I finished with about an hour to go, at the final presentation I killed! I mean people were coming up to me afterwards and shaking my hand, it was really funny, and everyone loved it. Instead of 6 projects that didn’t amount to a story, I told one 5 minute tale and brought down the house. I wish I still had that piece on tape, I probably do somewhere, but I’m not sure. I went on to create a really crude, and vulgar animated series entitled “Lando Calrissian Intergalactic Space Pimp,” that took on racism, Bush’s response to Katrina, as well as George Lucas hating black people. Anyway, that long story brings us here and to my new current project.

Do you recognize this image? Of course you don’t, it’s the front room in the townhouse I’m renting here in Lubbock.

Now do you recognize this image? Of course many of you do, this is the opening scene of the Children’s book Good Night Moon.

Now do you recognize this image? It’s my front room again, only this time I’ve decorated it with real world images too look like the opening scene of Good Night Moon. It’s not complete yet, obviously the bunny isn’t there yet, the covers on the bed are missing and so is the picture of the three little bears, as well as some images on the side table. This is a good idea of my style, I like to call it
“Collage Animation”. I don’t know if I’m the father of the style, all I know is, it is something I do, and do well. I’m going to animate the bunny, the kittens, and the “old lady in the rocking chair saying ‘shhh’”, using claymation.

I’m really excited about this project and I think it will turn out wonderful. I’ve taken a few artistic liberties with the design, for instance my bunny has bunny slippers instead of classic night slippers. I’ve also change the color pallete slightly when it comes to the bed and a few other images. This is found art, a collage of my photos, as well as other people’s, to create something wholly original and new. This style of animation is a passion of mine, and something I’m always discovering has a way of expanding my storytelling into new worlds and ideas I couldn’t do on my own. I’ll keep you updated with the progress of “GOOD NIGHT MOON!” And if you promise, double pinky promise not to be offended I will leave you a link to an episode of the Lando series, which is terribly crude, vulgar, and dated. I’ve come along way since then and as you can tell my the time stamp it’s over 5 years old. Thanks again, talk to you soon!!!
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=5662031592956520574&hl=en&fs=true 

yes I wrote and performed the theme song. I’m quite the rapper, but that is for a much different time and place. Enjoy!

(you can now read my “about” section, previously it was just the generic wordpress one, now it says things!)

Alright, let’s start this off with a bang, Seinfeld was the greatest television show EVER! Yes, EVER! Oh you disagree? Well you are wrong! In a world of opinions this tidbit  is fact. Nothing did, has, or will have, the cultural significance of Seinfeld.

"A stunned nation prepares for life without Seinfeld." -PEOPLE Magazine, 1998.

I was just in a production meeting and we started talking about voice-over guys. I said “I bet they wear scarves and if they raise their voice to someone they send that person an invoice.” Everyone laughed and then my boss,  the General Manager of KTXT-TV said, “Like George on Seinfeld!” We laughed again because we instantly remembered when George wore oven mitts to protect his ”beautiful hands” when he became a hand model. That episode aired roughly 15 years ago and it’s still as fresh and relevant as this morning’s newspaper. “Seinfeld moments” are something that happen every day simply because it was the show about nothing, and by that, it was the show about everything. Viriginity, fast-food, lines in a deli, cab rides, peeing on couches, masterbation, washing your hands, parking, going out with friends, dating,  and even pitching a television show.  Seinfeld had everything, it covered daily, regular lives, better than anything ever has or will. 

Yes that’s right, I’m talking about one of the most iconic moments, in one of the most iconic televsion shows, EVER! We have to go back, all the way to the start, all the way to that beautiful 12 milliion dollar pilot episode. Full disclosure: I was not one of the chosen few who began following LOST from it’s opening scene, Jack opening his eyes in a jungle and stumbling back to the wreckage of Oceanic flight 815, in 2004. I began LOST in it’s off season between season 5 and the final 6th season 2010. I came across it on Netflix’s instant streaming, “what is this LOST all about? Why is it over after 6 seasons if everyone loves it so much? And why am I talking to myself about a television show I’ve never seen?” I said.

So I dove in, all the way in. I started flying through episodes, then flying through seasons. My wife scoffed at episode 3 of season 1 and I said “you have to start from the beginning, it’s AMAZING stuff! ” So she did, and she too started flying through seasons, we met at the season finale of season 1 and by that time the kids were hooked too. We were a LOST family.  It really was amazing stuff, for those of you that follow media/film/television entertainment the way I do it was life altering, a culture shock. My wife and I are the two biggest critics on the planet (except when it comes to Taylor Swift, we love her), and we were in love. This was like nothing we, heck America, had ever seen! A television show so cinematic filmmakers wept, LOST had everything, amazing characters, conflict, drama, comedy, and action. It was lightning in a bottle, I’m a harsh TV critic, I haven’t made it past season 2 of any show since Seinfeld, yet I couldn’t watch seasons fast enough. Sometimes we’d stay up until 2am just poring through the show. By the time season 6 began we were winding down season 5. By episode 2 of Season 6 we had caught up, and we were tuned in.

I’m only going to say this about the final season, looking back, the answers didn’t matter. As crazy as it sounds I did not watch LOST to find out why a bird knew Hurley’s name or to dissect the physics of time travel and how it pertains to the island. Furthermore I could care less if the island was a cork or a tall glass of rum. I loved LOST because it was exactly what everything else on TV was not. I’ve tried to fill the void that LOST has left in my heart, but nothing absolutely nothing comes close, yes I’m looking at you NBC’s The Event! So why not go back? Why not listen to Dr. Jack and take the plunge? I need the daddy issues, the prolonged stares, the mysteries, Jack crying. I want to fall in love with Kate all over again, and then wish she would fall of a cliff. I need Locke to tell me “there’s something more!” I want to follow Jacob and wrestle with the man in black. I want to run around the island naked with Desmond! Ok maybe not that, but I want it all, and I want it back now. So, I’m going back to the beginning. I want to open my eyes and stare up through those trees again, “we have to go back!” Yes we do.

Howdy, and welcome to The Film Frame. My name is Paul Hunton and I will be your host. I am a Director/Producer for KTXT-PBS 5 in Lubbock Texas. The Film Frame exists to bring to you information about upcoming and ongoing productions in the Lubbock area,  film reviews,  ”how to” articles,  updates on my ongoing projects for KTXT, interviews, guest writing, and other bits and pieces of my brain.

For starters, here is a couple sketches from our once alive but now dead online comedy show “Land Shark Comedy”.  The first one has a Christmas theme and really hammers home how much we should love and take care of our grandparents, which is fantastic, because we are celebrating my grandmother’s 82nd birthday tonight. It stars myself and my twin brother Matt, it was filmed in 2008, and we are going to enter it in to Tosh.0′s viewer video in hopes that it makes the cut. The second one might offend people, not because it’s offensive but because it’s not funny. I for one, think it’s terribly funny, you might just find it terrible. Enjoy!

Also if anyone has any ideas they want to discuss about film or film theory, knows of films being made in the area that they would like to see highlighted on The Film Frame, wants to write a review, or just wants me to shut up please email me at [email protected] Thank you!