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The generous David J. Show links us up with yet another excellent web item. Frank Frazetta’s granddaughter Sara Frazetta gives us a detailed account of the illustrator’s work for the National Lampoon magazine in the early 1970s. The brisk 12-minute video piece is snappy, engaging, and packed with FF’s stirring artwork.
National Lampoon’s art director Michael Gross figures in quite a bit. It’s all fun and fresh and Ms. Frazetta is an excellent hostess:
The video is one of a series, attached to an all-things-Frazetta website, Frazetta Girls.
Ah, CineSavant doesn’t like rumors, and naturally never web-publishes unsubstantiated rumors, because that’s not good journalism. All of America in 2025 is making a big effort to stay aboveboard and honest about everything!
… which is why we’re intrigued to hear rumors about the film collection of the late Wade Williams … Mainly, that it may be in the hands of new owners sooner than later.
If the new rights holders (the made up, fantasy rights holders of rumorville) exploit and release that library properly, a nice chunk of 1950s Sci-fi and horror could finally see the light of day in decent restored quality. Anything is possible.
We’re of course thinking of movies that need serious revisits, like our favorite originals Rocketship X-M and Kronos. ↑ Our latest, up-to-date reviews of those two pictures are now 25 years old. Here’s hoping the rumor has weight. The joke that’s going around is,
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