A Max Fleischer Screen Songs cartoon with part of it devoted to cartoon animation and the other part to Arthur Treacy, radio's Street Singer, doing the Irving Berlin song, with words and dancing-ball double-exposed at the lower left of the frame for audience participation..
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If you have any patience for early animation history, Russian Lullaby is a curiosity you might stumble upon. It’s not really a "movie" in the sense that anyone today would recognize, but it’s a fascinating, if slightly uncomfortable, artifact.You’ve got Arthur Tracy, the "Street Singer," standing there in a suit that l...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Dave Fleischer
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"If you have any patience for early animation history, Russian Lullaby is a curiosity you might stumble upon. It’s not really a "movie" in the sense that anyone today would recognize, but it’s a fascinating, if slightly uncomfortable, artifact.You’ve got Arthur Tracy, the "Street Singer," standing there in a suit that looks like it’s made of heavy wool, staring directly into the camera lens. He’s singing Irving Berlin, and he’s doing it with a level of intensity that feels a bit intense for a car..."
