A quite entertaining television interview send-up with the up and coming, but totally out of it, jazz French Hornist "Shorty Petterstein" (whom the interviewer keeps referring to as "Osc") that turns a little fractious. He prefers a bit of Bartok to Tchaikovsky. A small town cat appears interested in his gigs in downtown San Francisco. He declines to give advice to fellow aspiring musicians. "Just blow, man"! This animation quite cleverly sums up the inanity of a great slew of media chats between professional broadcasters and subjects of whom they have no knowledge and in whom they have no interest.
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animated look at jazz
lee_eisenberg24 August 2019
The animated short "The Interview" (not to be confused with the Seth Rogen movie) shows a reporter asking a jazz musician questions. There's a stark contrast between the no-nonsense interviewer and the easygoing musician. Director Ernest Pintoff submitted the cartoon to the Academy Awards but it didn't get nominated. Pintoff later directed the Academy Award-winning animated short "The Critic", written and narrated by Mel Brooks, depicting the riffing of art (it loosely inspired "Mystery Science Theater 3000").
Anyway, this is an OK short. I wonder how many people in the United States were into jazz in 1960.
Anyway, this is an OK short. I wonder how many people in the United States were into jazz in 1960.
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