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Oddball Films presents Strange Sinema, a monthly evening of old finds, rare gems and newly discovered films from the stacks of the archive. Drawing on his collection of over 50,000 16mm film prints- the largest archive in Northern California - Oddball Films director Stephen Parr has compiled his 105th program of offbeat, quirky, experimental outtakes and unusual films. Strange Sinema 105: World’s Strangest Films is a tribute to the weird, the wacky and just plain stupid films in our archive. Films range from educationals, amateur and home movies, odd featurettes, news outtakes, screen tests, art films, stag films and wacky animal stars! We’ll start off with the The Cat Who Drank and Used Too Much (1987), an Oddball audience favorite about a beer drinking, drug addicted cat; the very weird Universal Studios featurette Fraud By Mail (1944) focuses on bizarre dangerous mail order fraud: nose shapers, spine straighteners, eye mallets, pendiculators and more; The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979), a supersonic and hilarious dash across the country at hyper-speed; Burlesque Screen Tests and Dancers (1950s), featuring Bunny Spencer’s screen test, a rooftop mambo and a masked Afro-Cuban dancer with a bowl of fire on her head; Deciso 3003 (1982), the world’s first alien teen sex ed puppet film where even puppets (designed by legendary Julie Taymor) feel ashamed; hop on board for what some say is America's first hardcore porn, the notorious silent stag film A Free Ride AKA Grass Sandwich (1915); Movie Sideshow (1933), an offbeat kaleidoscope of human marvels featuring a carnival barker, newsreel clips of a man sealed into sealed into a block of ice, and a "human fire extinguisher" who drinks water and kerosene, starts fires and puts one out; Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp (1971), Get Smart meets James Bond as A.P.E. (Agency to Prevent Evil) monkey detective Lance Link battles a C.H.U.M.P. (Criminal Headquarters for Underworld Master Plan) dentist who secretly implants radio transmitters into teeth; Frank Film (1973), Frank Mouris’s classic of independent cinema presents 11,592 separate shots of common objects forming complex, rapidly moving patterns that Andrew Sarris called "a nine-minute evocation of America's exhilarating everythingness” Plus! Airplane Wing Tests, Blind as a Bat and much more cinematic detritus from the archives! Sinema just doesn’t get stranger than this! Date: Thursday, October 27th, 2016 at 8:00PM Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to: 415-558-8117 or RSVP@oddballfilms.com Web: oddballfilms.blogspot.com