As folks in Canada practice ever more stringent social distancing and self-isolation, Bowen Islander Michael Nankin (a producer, director and writer who moved up from Los Angeles) started a sort of online film festival called "Covideo."
Every day Nankin will post on Facebook (and share with the Undercurrent) a short or clip "with the intent to make our isolation a bit more bearable."
Day four: King Size Canary
"Tex Avery, one of the great American cartoon directors, tells a story about consumerism, gross consumption, advertising, the twisted American Dream, role-playing, post-Second World War international politics and the arms race while ignoring time, space, physics and zero-sum energy/matter theory in 1947's King Size Canary––while making one of the funniest cartoons ever," writes Nankin.
