P3D Re: One Reel Wonder

[Derek Gee <73157.2172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lattie wrote:
>Along with the showing of the Realist featuring monster movie
>"Them," this Halloween weekend, TMC also showed a "One
>Reel Wonder." Apparently from the '40's, the MGM B/W short
>featured, in the narrator's words "Scareo...stareo..uh, there's
>that word again!"  It had ballons blowing up, a mouse heald out
>on a stick and other gimmicks (I guess to make one's date
>clinge closer :-) ). It even prefaced with a semi-serious
>explanation on how stereo worked.

This would be "Audioscopics" from 1936 (a little earlier than
you guessed) and it was nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Novelty Short.  (Hard to believe the part about
the Academy Award part, isn't it?  ;)   )

                                                  Derek Gee


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