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Pacificon Convention News, issue 2, June 1946
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COMING ATTRACTIONS by Cinemakerman At the movie theater, you know, no matter how good the bill you just got thru enjoying there's always something coming ntext that's "even better". So, tho fans with long memories thrill still as they recall the showing of the wonder film, METROPOLIS, at the Nycon... the surprise interplanetary amateur picture, MONSTERS OF THE MOON, at the Chicon...and good old LOST WORLD at the Denvention...they naturally want to know, [underlined] what's next? What's on the program in the way of a motion picture for the Pacificon? Well, we're working on half a dozen or better of the best science fiction, fantasy and weird films of all times, to try to track down one that's available. Among the possibilities are: JUST IMAGINE--the interplanetary picture of 1980 [sic, 1908]. THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS--adapted from H G Wells' "Island of Dr Moreau", with Laughton & Lugosi. THE MUMMY--A classic Karloffilm of immortality. DELUGE-- S. Fowler Wright's world catastrophe! DR X-- A great scientifilm...and in technicolor. MAD LOVE-- Peter Lorre, taken from "The Hands of Orlac". THE DEVIL DOLL-- Cinemadaption of A. Merritt's "Burn Witch Burn!" HIGH TREASON-- The Film of the Future. THINGS TO COME-- Greatest of 'em all..................................... That isn't all. Howard Phillips Lovecraft wrote it...Ronald Colman enacted it... "Suspense" presented it... we're negotiating to play the discs: THE DUNWICH HORROR!! (Flash--Nobody will every believe this, I know--I wouldn't it looks too rehearsed---but truth sometimes [underlined] is stranger than supernatural fiction--and just after I finished typing the foregoing on the dummy, I had a phone call from Miss Ray (unlikely name, too!) of the "Suspense" people, and we are in suspense no longer: THE DUNWICH HORROR [underlined] will be available for the Pacificon!) Don't go 'way, folks--you "ain't heard nothing' yet!" As a special treat on the special program for Weird Fans, an early recording from pre-fame days of O'Brien Selection author, Ray Bradbury, presenting his dramatization of the famous Weird Tales' horror story, "The Parasitic Hand'. Another Record to be heard will be an interpretation of Lord Dunsany's "The Hurricane". And last but [underlined] far from least will be a fantasy feast for gourmets of the grotesque: "Arabesque with Horror" by Theodore Gottlieb, the strictly-from-Grand-Guignol raconteur whose offtrail tales are caviar for connoisseurs of the curious. Hear Gustav Meyrink's "Bal Macabre" from Strange Tales! 14
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COMING ATTRACTIONS by Cinemakerman At the movie theater, you know, no matter how good the bill you just got thru enjoying there's always something coming ntext that's "even better". So, tho fans with long memories thrill still as they recall the showing of the wonder film, METROPOLIS, at the Nycon... the surprise interplanetary amateur picture, MONSTERS OF THE MOON, at the Chicon...and good old LOST WORLD at the Denvention...they naturally want to know, [underlined] what's next? What's on the program in the way of a motion picture for the Pacificon? Well, we're working on half a dozen or better of the best science fiction, fantasy and weird films of all times, to try to track down one that's available. Among the possibilities are: JUST IMAGINE--the interplanetary picture of 1980 [sic, 1908]. THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS--adapted from H G Wells' "Island of Dr Moreau", with Laughton & Lugosi. THE MUMMY--A classic Karloffilm of immortality. DELUGE-- S. Fowler Wright's world catastrophe! DR X-- A great scientifilm...and in technicolor. MAD LOVE-- Peter Lorre, taken from "The Hands of Orlac". THE DEVIL DOLL-- Cinemadaption of A. Merritt's "Burn Witch Burn!" HIGH TREASON-- The Film of the Future. THINGS TO COME-- Greatest of 'em all..................................... That isn't all. Howard Phillips Lovecraft wrote it...Ronald Colman enacted it... "Suspense" presented it... we're negotiating to play the discs: THE DUNWICH HORROR!! (Flash--Nobody will every believe this, I know--I wouldn't it looks too rehearsed---but truth sometimes [underlined] is stranger than supernatural fiction--and just after I finished typing the foregoing on the dummy, I had a phone call from Miss Ray (unlikely name, too!) of the "Suspense" people, and we are in suspense no longer: THE DUNWICH HORROR [underlined] will be available for the Pacificon!) Don't go 'way, folks--you "ain't heard nothing' yet!" As a special treat on the special program for Weird Fans, an early recording from pre-fame days of O'Brien Selection author, Ray Bradbury, presenting his dramatization of the famous Weird Tales' horror story, "The Parasitic Hand'. Another Record to be heard will be an interpretation of Lord Dunsany's "The Hurricane". And last but [underlined] far from least will be a fantasy feast for gourmets of the grotesque: "Arabesque with Horror" by Theodore Gottlieb, the strictly-from-Grand-Guignol raconteur whose offtrail tales are caviar for connoisseurs of the curious. Hear Gustav Meyrink's "Bal Macabre" from Strange Tales! 14
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