TCM: Short Subject Line-up 2/12/02

[Nelson]

Here is the complete listings for tonights line-up with short subjects on TCM.

8pm
BEFORE THEY WERE STARS
See film legends making their film debuts, such as SPENCER TRACY, JUDY GARLAND.

10pm
DIRECTORS IN THE MAKING
A look at short films by legendary directors, before they became famous dircetors years later.

12am
WESTERN SHORTS

2am
WORLD WAR 2 PROPAGANDA SHORTS

4:30am
FITZPATRICK TRAVEL TALKS
This is a very great short series looking at foreign countries and right here in the states.Two shorts to lookout for...The tour of Los Angeles in 1935 and what New York City looked like in 1949.

[Matthew Hunter]

World War II Propaganda...hmmm. I don't see how you could do a show like that justice without a Warner Bros. Cartoon. But if cartoons are not included, then that's their misfortune :confused:
-Matthew

[Do-Do]

Ooooh! I'm definitely going to tape those WW2 shorts! :bosko:
Look, even Bosko is excited!
:bosko: <---"I sure am! Too bad I wasn't around during World Wa--"
Shut up Bosko, you talk too much!
I hope that cartoons are included in this, but seeing how they didn't even mention cartoons in the history of shorts special (except for two seconds of a guy saying that theaters used to show Bugs Bunny and then a short clip from "Hair Raising Hare"), I doubt it. :rolleyes:

[Crazy Tom]

Originally posted by Nelson
FITZPATRICK TRAVEL TALKS
This is a very great short series looking at foreign countries and right here in the states.Two shorts to lookout for...The tour of Los Angeles in 1935 and what New York City looked like in 1949.

Interesting note: in the 1935 LA Traveltalk, did you notice the "full" MGM lion introduction? I have that short from a few years ago...if it's not cartoons, it's the one-reelers for me. Always classic, and certainly historical/hysterical.

[Gossamer]

Having done a salute to live-action shorts, perhaps TCM would be open to doing the same down the road for animated shorts. Who knows? Stranger things have happened.