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Tenacious Eats Presents ‘Super-8 Super Snacks’ Saturday at Wizard World Comic Con
If Christian Kane gets hungry this weekend at Wizard Works Comic Con, he’ll likely head over to the Tenacious Eats Presents Super-8 Super Snacks event Saturday at 2.
We were going to show the Marvel Super-Heroes cartoon, it turns out there’s a moratorium on all things Marvel at this time (thanks a lot, Avengers!), but the show will go on!
Tenacious Eats “movies for Foodies’ is a one-of-a-kind event where food is prepared and plated in front of you while you watch a film on the big screen. We’ve covered many of the movie-dinners here at We Are Movie Geeks. Now we’ll be teaming up with Tenacious Eats this Saturday at Wizard World Comic Con for an event we’re calling Tenacious Eats Presents Super-8 Super Snacks. It will be from 2pm to 2:45pm in Room 106 at America’s Center
We will be showing a pair of the Max Fleischer SUPERMAN cartoons from the 1940’s
Superman’s original medium was, of course, comic books, and his second venue was a radio program that began in 1940. Superman’s first moving picture appearance, animated or live action, was in the series of cartoons produced by Max Fleischer in the 1940s. Their importance in making Superman publicly renown cannot be understated. With only the comic books Superman would have been popular with children in America, but the radio and cartoon serials made the character so well known that he was soon recognized by all of North America, and then the entire world. Thanks in part to these cartoons his fame would snowball to create his lasting success and international stardom. We’ll be showing two of these, THE MUMMY STRIKES and JUNGLE DRUMS at the Super-8 Super Snacks event at Wizard World Comic Con screened through an old-school Super-8 sound projector. Chefs Liz Schuster and Steve Schmidt of Tenacious Eats will serve food to the audience while the shorts are playing. Since we only have 45 minutes, this is sort of a mini version of what Tenacious Eats does several times a month at their ‘Movies for Foodies’ events, which usually run about four hours and include a feature film, five or six courses, cocktails with every course, an intermission, trivia with prizes, and live music. It will give attendees a taste of what Tenacious Eats is all about.
We’re also going to show a Vincent Price trailer reel, clips of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood’s gonzo cross-dressing epic GLEN OR GLENDA and Russian animator’s Wladislaw Starewicz incredible 1932 short THE DEVIL’S BALL.
Starewicz used every imaginable piece of scrap for this crazy 9-minute film : old shoes, chicken bones, utensils, broken glasses, dolls, monkeys, rats…nothing was off limits. THE DEVIL’S BALL is a bizarre, funny, and also eerie film that should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in animation.
Tenacious Eats only works with locally produced food procured by them and hard-to-find ingredients imported from places that specialize in them. For each new film, the folks at Tenacious Eats write a new menu specific to that movie’s story. Sometimes the menu is literal and sometimes it is inspired interpretation. In all cases, each dining experience is different because each film is different. By integrating film and food, Movies for Foodies creates an original experience, a feast for the senses, an event that brings food and film, chefs and diners together.
Tenacious Eats site can be found HERE
The next Tenacious Eats ‘Movies for Foodies’ event is THE WEDDING SINGER May 30th. The Facebook invite for that event can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/334949443375749/
The Tenacious Eats Father’s Day Brunch featuring a screening of THE BLUES BROTHERS is Sunday, June 21st beginning at 10am. The Facebook invite for that event can be found HERE
https://www.facebook.com/events/949982365046544/
Both of these events take place at Located at Food Outreach – 3117 Olive Street – St. Louis, MO. 63103-1212 – (Across the Street from Pappy’s on Olive)
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