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Tag Archives: halloween
Happy Halloween
(Thanks, John)
Let’s do the Time Warp Again
Every year at Halloween, our middle school has a costume parade and contest and the morning is culminated by each grade level doing an all-grade dance off. This year the 8th graders had the song, “Let’s do the Time Warp … Continue reading
Posted in dance, music
Tagged Dammit Janet, dance, halloween, Let's do the time warp again, music, Rocky Horror Picture Show, time warp
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Hell’s Bells
Walt Disney produced 75 short Silly Symphonies between 1929 and 1939 when his studio was located in the Silver Lake District of LA. This number 4 of the seventy-five.
Posted in animation
Tagged animation, Cerberus, devil, halloween, hell, Hell's Bells, Silly Symphony, Ub IWerks, Walt Disney
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William Burroughs with a Jack-O-Lantern he carved with a hatchet, October 31, 1996
Posted in Holidays, performance, photography, writing
Tagged halloween, Jack-O-Lantern, photography, William Burroughs, writer
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War of the Worlds
This Halloween episode of Mercury Theater on the Air, directed and narrated by Orson B. Welles, aired 75 years ago on Oct. 30, 1938. It was an adaptation of another Wells, H.G. Wells, of his 1898 sci-fi classic, The War of the Worlds. … Continue reading
Posted in performance
Tagged H.G. Wells, halloween, hoax, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson B. Welles, radio, science fiction
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