REAL ART WAYS PRESENTS
A/V GEEKS: THE CELLULOID SALESMAN

Still from Freeze-In, featuring Arte Johnson and Judy Carne.
Image courtesy of A/V Geeks. Click image for large version.

Thursday, April 28, 2011 | 8 PM
$10/$8 Real Art Ways members

Hartford, Connecticut - A/V Geek Skip Elsheimer, collector of over 23,000 16mm educational films, has turned an offbeat hobby into a touring show. Skip will screen his favorite vintage advertising and sales films at Real Art Ways in a program called The Celluloid Salesman.

Tickets are available at realartways.org or by calling 860.232.1006.

As programs like AMC's Mad Men have recently created an interest in post-war Madison Ave advertising, The Celluloid Salesman will incorporate a wide range of films from that period, some of which have aged better than others.

For instance, Elsheimer will screen films like Kodak's Movies Move People and Hamilton Beach's Comprehending Blending, which serve as examples of effective sales tools, as well as the truly terrible production by Sears, Freeze-In (pictured above) and other train wrecks.

Skip Elsheimer's A/V Geek program offers an opportunity for audiences to see a collection of (unintentionally) hilarious vintage footage that might have otherwise been lost.

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