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[oldshowbiz]

The angriest omelet ever made

[leo-and-me]

The lore deepens. CBC produced another television show from 1972-1990 known as “The Beachcombers”. Massive part of thousands of childhoods and it was shown in tens of countries according to the actors. Exact same cast and crew as Leo and Me. Brent Carver, Michael J. Fox, Jackson Davies…. Also produced by Strange & Strange.

[plexflexico]

Canadians of a certain age will understand.

[70s80sandbeyond]

Robert Clothier, Jackson Davies and Bruno Gerussi on The Beachcombers

[barklyvanish]

Greece,The BEAUTIFUL Blue #Greece #NanaMouskouri  #BeautifulBlue

[oykusuba3]

History of Hungarian Animation

Context (1945-1991)

Fast and dirty timeline

Although not inside Soviet Union, it was largely aligned with Communism and Soviet rule after WW2, after Nazi forces were driven out of the country but the Soviet forces stayed.

Wanted to be more neutral and independent from communist regime in 1956 with student protests, but got bloodied by Soviet forces.

The 1956 revolution was pretty sudden and very gutty, as protesting the regime was punishable by death, no matter how peaceful.

Once Suez Occupation started, USSR came back and took back harshly. No country intervened, since they were busy with Suez.

Border opens with Austria 1989, which helped to lift the Iron Curtain.

Soviet forces leave on 1991, after the dissolve.

Art Industry: General Sovietisms

In 1932, Stalin declared all artists must conform to state’s ideologies. Otherwise, as Trevor Belmont said wisely in Season 2 of Castlevania (2019) - “Eat shit and die.”

“Writer’s are the engineers of the human soul.”

Propaganda-fuel.

The art produced must be showing the idealistic, positive side of the Soviet Revolution, in a easily digestable way.

Before, the main art movement was Avant-Garde, using geometric shapes to talk about Revolution and rising into a bright future together. Got discarded as it was too bougie and non-sensical. Soviet Realism became the new black.

If you didn’t comply with idealisms, Papa Censorship would woop yer arse.

Thus, some non-conformists took roundabouts and used highly-context-based symbolism in their work to bury their messages.

This non-conformism especially bloomed around ‘60s. “Unofficial artists”, showing their work outside of government-funded spaces, even though they still got raided time to time.

Art Industry: Hungary

Promote, Tolerate, Ban

Promote the regime. Tolerate the unofficial and ban who criticise.

Hungarian Animation

Film industry got nationalised in 1948.

Pannónia Filmstúdió was the sole animation studio for a very long time, since it was the only “official” one to make animated works.

Pannónia Filmstúdió

Founded in 1951. First animation studio in Hungary. Government-funded.

Gov-funded = was “official” but censorship was a big thing, even pre-production or even considering a film idea.

Ex: István Orosz, one of the directors in the studio, wanted to make a film about the wave of Hungarian migrants to the US following the 1956 Revolution but knew he couldn’t, so he didn’t even plan the film.

Also did live-action films, but the Animation branch got independent

Had people from all over the socio-political spectrum.

It was kind of the only way, since it was “official” and got away with some because it was “art”.

Collaborative auteurs, everyone works in rotations. Keeping story-piles to work on the next film.

In part with anti-Disney trends from ‘50s to ‘70s. 

Went about its business by dodging the expectations of dictatorial cultures by their own way.

Went bankrupt after private sector got bigger. Got discarded into different smaller private studios.

Extra Notes and Quotes:

    “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

-  Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

   “Promoting the institutional critique as an integral part of the institutionalized exhibition strategies in former Yugoslavia indicates that the universally imposed Western art terminology needs to be reconsidered and readjusted when investigating associated phenomena from non-Western regions.”

- Ana Bogdanovic, quoting Zdenka Badovinac, Mythmaking Eastern Europe: Art in Response

   “Hungarians for 500 years, have not won a single revolution, a single fight. Yet, they’ve succeeded in (..) regaining their self-respect. Just as an individual needs that feeling that “I am able to look myself in the mirror”, nations also have to regain their self-respects periodically. You can’t be a slave forever.“

- Bela Liptak, Cry Hungary: A Revolution Remembered

Sources:

The Animated Esperanto: The Globalist Vision in the Films of Sándor Reisenbüchler by Paul Morton

Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons by Nichola Dobson

Animation: A World History by Giannalberto Bendazzi

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/PannoniaFilmStudio

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054642.stm

Contemporary Visual Art In Afghanistan: ‘An Art Of Laughter And Forgetting ...’ by Jemima Montagu

The Red Screen: Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema by Anna Lawton

https://www.guggenheim.org/arts-curriculum/topic/art-and-ideology

https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/sites/daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/files/davis_center_art_in_context_module.pdf

From Russia With Bruno Gerussi

Socialist Realism - Soviet Art From the Avant-Garde to Stalin

https://www.chipublib.org/cultural-life-in-the-soviet-union/ 

Cry Hungary: A Revolution Remembered

https://hyperallergic.com/456570/art-and-culture-in-cold-war-hungary-wende-museum/

https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/5687/budapest-city-report-film-hungarian-cinema

Pannonia Film Studio

For Further Reading:

Hungarian folk art by Tamas Hofer

Performing Identity After Yugoslavia: Contemporary Art Beyond and Through the Ethno-National by Arielle M. Myers

Mythmaking Eastern Europe: Art in Response by Ana Bogdanovic

https://kafkadesk.org/2019/07/11/how-the-national-film-fund-revitalised-the-hungarian-film-industry/

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NowThatsCanadian #EdHunt #edhuntart #studiotenseven #Edmonton #Alberta #Canada #Bruno #gerussi #Canada #Canadian #beachcombers #logging #beachcomber #sunshine last #britishcolumbia #bc #jetboat #yellow Edgar #coffeemug #CBC #cbctelevision #Canadian intent #crtc #g7 #g7summit #trade #tradedeficit #americanculturaldeficit #trademark #shortsighted #ruse #scarecrow #muellerinvestigation

[rebeccahpedersen]

‘It’s right over there!’ The time Bruno Gerussi played navigator on his float-plane commute to Gibsons

Actor Bruno Gerussi may be best known for his work on The Beachcombers, but he had a long career at CBC before that.

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[funtubeweb]

Herring Hunt: An Oscar®-nominated jewel starring Bruno Gerussi

[smallstripedsock]

Persephone ⚓️ {I found out yesterday that Bruno Gerussi once commissioned my Nana for weavings for his home. How neat is that?!}

[oldshowbiz]

1971.

Bruno Gerussi's album was perhaps inspired by fellow Canadian actor William Shatner...

[leo-and-me]

CALLING ALL BRENT CARVER OR MICHAEL J FOX FANS!!

I know, guys! There is MORE lost media.

#canada #cbcnews #canadianbroadcastingcorporation #lostmedia #justice #WeWantJusticeRightNow.

The Beachcombers was a 19 season long show, spanning from 1972 to 1990. Many people grew up with the show, but similar to many other CBC based projects and shows, it was lost due to poor care and treatment. This CBC-based loss disrespects Jackson Davies, Shirley Milliner, Reg Romero, Bruno Gerussi, Brent Carver, and Michael J. Fox, similar to their loss of Leo & Me (1976) and Witch of Westminster Crossing (1977) just to name more of their faults. The show was a gem for Canadian history and it was by far the longest running Canadian show. Many people loved the series, but are now unable to watch it due to the CBC's lack of care for the show. Many of the actors whom were in the show have since passed away or have gotten fairly ill, which adds much more salt to the wound. The CBC is ruining legacies and will not stop unless we make them. Sign this petition today to show that you care, both to the world and to the CBC. Sign for change, sign to help, sign for respect. Sign for whatever good cause you want to contribute to. We need help. We need it soon. Media-destroying events happen all the time, especially in Canada, such as wildfires and other catastrophic disasters. Any number of unstoppable things can happen, and the likeliness of the show being permanently destroyed is increasing by the minute. Justice for Brent Carver, justice for Michael J. Fox, justice for Jackson Davies, Justice for Reg Romero, justice for Bruno Gerussi, justice for Shirley Milliner, justice for Pat John, justice for Robert Clothier, justice for Rae Brown, justice for Joe Austin, Justice for Cameron Bancroft, just to name a small percentage of the innocent people affected. These people all deserve justice. One signature contributes massively to the cause. Help us make the change.

These people never deserved the loss and disrespect that the CBC brought them. The injustice was never mentioned in the fine lines of the papers they signed. They had no idea this would be brought unto them. Justice for The Beachcombers.

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VANCOUVER: After 37 years at the helm of the music department at Vancouver’s Province newspaper, Tom Harrison has tendered his resignation after a career that had him both diligently serving and participating in the Vancouver music scene.   In addition to his duties as the music critic for the Vancouver daily, Harrison hosted a weekly show on CFOX radio called “Demolisten” which spotlighted Vancouver indie bands.  His tireless efforts led to the popular Vancouver Seeds competition on CFOX which helped launch the careers of Nickelback, Bif Naked and Matthew Good, among others, including his own late '80s almost-made-it band, Bruno Gerussi's Medallion. Harrison was the frontman in the ensemble and the group released one album, In Search Of The Fourth Chord, on the Warner Bros. Canada imprint. His start as a music critic was suitably auspicious. In his own words: "I was hired by the Georgia Straight to fill a hole created by Bob Geldof. In 18 months in Vancouver, Geldof had increased the Straight's music coverage significantly but he was going back to Ireland, muttering something about forming a rock band, which eventually became The Boomtown Rats. In four years at the Straight, I increased the music coverage even more, freelanced on the side, and took up drums. As a novice drummer, I pounded for The Explosions, the Straight’s house band'. "We issued a single and opened for Talking Heads at the Commodore the day Keith Moon of The Who died, September 7, 1978..."

Tom Harrison Signs Off | FYIMusicNews

[anotheruserwithnoname]

One for my fellow Canadians (and others - this thing aired around the world in the 70s): 46 years ago today (Oct. 1) The Beachcombers debuted on Canadian television. It ran for 19 years - still the longest-running scripted series of its kind in Canadian history, and Bruno Gerussi went from a little-known character actor from Medicine Hat, Alberta, to Canadian icon-dom as log scavenger Nick Adonidas.

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TBT - Eartha Kitt sings to Bruno Gerussi during 90 Minutes Live with Peter Gzowski, 1976. (CBC/Franz Lindner)