It's lost media like this that really pisses me off. The kind that's almost completely absent from the internet.
Yeah honestly I'm quite surprised, I mean I wasn't specting to find the whole series or anything, but at least a few more clips in higher quality and, I don't know, A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE, MAYBE? But not even that... This is the kind of stuff that if nobody has it recorded on a VHS tape it might be completely lost
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 24, 2017 11:36:53 GMT
Now THIS is an obscure piece of lost media
So I remembered this old cartoon I used to watch when I was a kid, it was called "Pelezinho", and, as the title suggests, the titular character, Pelezinho, is based off the famous brazilian soccer player Pelé, and it was about Pelezinho being super good at soccer and... Honestly that's all I can remember, I was around 6-8 years old when I watched this, although I do remember that the plot was way more complex than just Pelezinho playing soccer (with that said, the plot wasn't complex at all, actually it was kinda dumb for what I can remember)
I can't find literally any information about it on the internet, not even a Wikipedia page, the one that I found is for the series of comic stripes called Turma do Pelezinho, but the art style is quite different from the cartoon, so I don't even know if the cartoon is an adaptation of the comic or if they just share the name, actually I don't even know if the cartoon is a brazilian production, I assume it is for obvious reasons but I don't even know that
The only character I can remember besides Pelezinho is his dog Rex (although I remember very clearly that in one episode they called him "Rexina" on a flashback episode when he was a puppy), and that's about it
As for the episodes, the only one I can remember was about some dude who was super tall so he used to play as the goalie, and I remember a scene where a player from the rival team was approaching him and he was just relaxing, drinking a soda or whatever while singing in his head "this soda is so good" or something among the lines
I checked Doblaje Wiki (a wikia which documents everything related to mexican and latin american dubs in general), but it has no article, the only mention of Pelezinho I could find was on the article of mexican voice actor Iván Bastidas, apparently he dubbed Pelezinho and some other character called Cana (only on the episode 4, apparently). With that said, I remember clearly that the dub I watched was from Spain, not Mexico. Also, according to this article, Pelezinho was broadcasted on Discovery Kids at some point, though there's no year or literally anything else
Lastly, the only piece of video I could find is the intro on a extremely shitty quality on YouTube. According to the uploader, a total of 26 episodes were made, though I still need to confirm that. Here's the video:
I checked the comments to see if there was anything useful and, besides a bunch of people saying "this cartoon is shit" (though I'm not surprised, like I said it was kinda dumb and overall it's clear how little budget it had), there's a comment in english of someone claiming they want to watch it, and another one from apparently a mexican guy, claiming that the show didn't last long in Mexico and that the dub they broadcasted over there is the one from Spain, so probably the mexican dub wasn't distributed widely
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 24, 2017 5:55:26 GMT
And now it's time for the first summary, although there's not much info, better keep it all in order
45 RPM Love: Also known as "Forty Five [45] RPM Love", it's a 6 minutes long music video, directed by Dennis Conroy and released in 1994. It was shot in the US, and, according to a brief review, it's "a saucy look at the illusions of gender and love in film and pop music". It's been shown on several LGBT film festivals for several years now, including the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, the Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival (also known as "aGLIFF") and OUTFEST. It is listed on the San Francisco Public Library website, although it is unknown if they have a copy of it
Dennis Conroy: Director of 45 RPM Love. I have reasons to believe that he studied filmmaking, cinematography and film/video production at the New York University in 1989 and communication studies and film/cinema/video studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1981 to 1985, although I still can't confirm this information yet. He has also worked as critic/reviewer, collaborator and as a member of screening commitees for several film festivals. Besides 45 RPM Love, he also co-directed Lush Life along with David E. Johnston
Michelle Lawler: A movie director who seems to have worked with Dennis Conroy in some way in the past. Still waiting for response
David E.Johnston: Co-director of Lush Life. Still waiting for response
Unfortunately that's all. I wish there was more info, but this is a one-man research, so it might take a while. I'll wait one or two more days for Michelle to respond my tweet before taking the email route. Also, since senshisun seems to have dissapeared, I'm gonna go ahead and send an email to David E.Johnston myself, so wish me luck
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 24, 2017 5:39:55 GMT
Nothing big today, either, just MORE mentions
Remember that "Outfest LGBT Film Festival Collection" I found a few days ago? Well I've been ignoring it because I didn't know what "Outfest" was. I thought it was another film festival, but I couldn't find literally anything about it, so I just kinda left it there. Today, though, I found the location of this specific film festival (Los Angeles), and now I could get a little bit more of info about it
It has its own YouTube channel, and it seems like it's a pretty big event, since I could find quite a bit of big names as guests, like Nick Jonas, Jeff Goldblum, and even Tom Hanks. With that said, there's no mention of 45 RPM Love nor Dennis Conroy on any of the video titles. What I do know, is that 45 RPM Love was shown on at least OUTFEST 2012 and 2015, so it seems like it's a moderately popular music video, which makes me wonder why is it lost on the first place
Finally, no response from Michelle Lawler yet. I'll wait one or two more days before I send an email
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 23, 2017 6:12:18 GMT
Found the Purina Cat Chow one on this compilation of December 1989 commercials, it's on the minute 11:23:
As for the other ones, I found nothing more than energizer-less commercials of Hostess Twinkies, and I actually found a Diet Pepsi commercial starring Michael J. Fox, but no bunny on it. Maybe I'll try to dig a bit deeper later
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 23, 2017 6:04:41 GMT
Finally, I found more than just some mentions
Apparently, 45 RPM Love was shown on the 8th Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival (or aGLIFF). Nothing too useful there, however, unlike the other festivals, this one actually has a brief review, which says:
"A saucy look at the illusions of gender and love in film and pop music"
With this, not only we confirm that this is, in fact, a music video, but also we now have a brief overview of it, which can come in handy
Unfortunately that's all I have for now, hopefully this will take us on the right direction
Lastly, still no response from Michelle Lawler, although there's no recent activity (the most recent one being in August 31) so I'm almost positive that I'm not being ignored (hopefully)
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 22, 2017 12:30:27 GMT
Found this on a magazie called Vibe, April 1999 issue (I had to upload it like this because I found it on Google Books so I couldn't save the pic with the traditional method)
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 22, 2017 3:56:09 GMT
Got a little bit more of info, still nothing big though, only bits and pieces
First of all, I found several mentions of Dennis Conroy at the 18th and 25th San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, so he seems to be a recurrent personality in those
On the 18th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, a fraction of 45 RPM Love was shown in some kind of compilation of short movies from the US and Canada called Homo Mix, apparently 3 minutes of 45 RPM Love were shown
As for the 25th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, he is mentioned as being part of the screening commitee, he did a review on the film Sleep in a Nest of Flames, and he was also mentioned as a contributor on the list of dedications
Last but not least, the San Francisco Public Library has it listed, though I don't quite understand that website so I don't understand if they have an actual copy or if they're just acknowledging its existence. As a quick note, I've been finding several mentions of the film under the alternate title "Forty Five [45] RPM Love", so gotta keep that in mind
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 22, 2017 0:31:17 GMT
I found this really old article (apparently it's from 1999) which talks about the show, however it seems that you have to register an account in order to be able to read the whole thing
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 21, 2017 7:55:08 GMT
This is getting tougher, so unfortunately I didn't find much info today, but of course I did find something useful
Apparently Dennis Conroy participated in the 32th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival (back to San Francisco again), but not as a director of a project, but as a critic. I was checking the list of projects shown at the event, checking which one of them might have been directed by Conroy, but instead I found a review signed by, you guessed it, Dennis Conroy, on a documentary called Pansy Division: Life In A Gay Rock Band. I didn't check the full list so I don't know if he did more than one review or if he actually directed any work, but that's enough for me to keep it in mind
Not only that, but I also found Dennis Conroy credited on the program note writers section of the credits of the frameline, which actually fits with the LinkedIn profile I found a few days ago, since, as you remember, that Dennis Conroy wrote press releases, bios, and fact sheets, and, most importantly, he contributed as a writer to film publications and film festival program catalogs, as well as having tons of experience as a writer and editor, so I'm starting to believe that the 32th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival Dennis Conroy and the LinkedIn Dennis Conroy are the same guy. With that said, I still have no major clues linking this Dennis Conroy to 45 RPM Love or Lush Life, since apparently Dennis Conroy is a pretty common name, so I still don't know if this is the correct Dennis Conroy
Lastly, Michelle Lawler hasn't responded my tweet. I'll wait for around a week, if I still get no response I'll send an email
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 21, 2017 0:59:53 GMT
I just read that Best O' Plucky Duck Day (last episode of the series) is actually the exact same as the episode 43 of Tiny Toon Adventures, so I guess technically there are two episodes available now...?
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 20, 2017 5:13:44 GMT
I decided to check what I could find with the newest clue I found yesterday, and I think I have something kinda big
First of all, I found another article on Chicago Reader which talks about The 14th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, unfortunately it has no information about 45 RPM Love, but still, it is good to have it for reference
Now, I decided to check what was that Homocore thing, apparently it is also known as "Queercore", and it's some kind of punk sub-genre, I won't go into details because it is not relevant for this search, but I got some info about Homocore Chicago, the people who chose 45 RPM Love for showing on the The 14th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival. According to their Facebook page:
"Homocore Chicago was founded in 1992 by Joanna Brown and Mark Freitas. Homocore was a regular space for queer punks to gather and featured live music by queercore and feminist punk bands"
At first I thought about sending them a message, but eventually I found an even better clue
I stumbled upon a movie called Forever's Gonna Start Tonight, directed by Michelle Lawler. Nothing much of our interest is going on here, except that Dennis Conroy is mentioned on the "special thanks" section of the credits, so I decided to check if I could find any more info about this Michelle Lawler person, and I hit the jackpot
First of all I found Forever's Gonna Start Tonight on vimeo, even though I don't know if the actual Michelle Lawler uploaded it, the channel is called, you guessed, MICHELLE LAWLER, and it has other videos about this person, so I thought about sending a message, but eventually I found even more info, more specifically an IMDB page, which led me to the official website, which led me to an email and a Twitter account, so of course I went and send a tweet as soon as possible. Even though that Twitter account doesn't seem to be that active, but still we gotta try, in case I don't get any response I'll try sending an email eventually. I told this person that I'm looking for 45 RPM Love, and asked if Dennis Conroy rang any bell. Hopefully we can get some good info about him, maybe even his contact info. I'll report as soon as I get a response (if I ever do). Here are the useful URLs:
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Sept 19, 2017 6:10:42 GMT
Got something useful
First of all, I tried to get more info about that Dennis Conroy I found on LinkedIn, and I found nothing... There's just so many people called Dennis Conroy
With that said, I tried to get more info about the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, or any relation it could have with 45 RPM Love, but I found nothing again... Until I found this:
What's that, you may be asking? Well, I don't know, it says that it is a "Outfest LGBT Film Festival Collection", I don't know what's that all about, but I found a very important piece of information. On the fourth page, near the end, I found 45 RPM Love listed, crediting Dennis Conroy as its director, so far, so good, however, what really caught my eye was its release date, since, according to this, 45 RPM Love was released in 1994, not 1996, so I decided to do a new search, this time with the apparently correct release year, and guess what? I got a match
I found an old article from November 1994 about The 14th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, and guess what? It mentions both Dennis Conroy AND 45 RPM Love, here's an extract of it:
"Homocore Presents
A program of short videos and films selected by members of Homocore Chicago: Rick Castro's Three Faces of Woman: Part 1--The Seduction of Lillith, Dennis Conroy's 45 RPM Love, Gordon Seaman's Wanted (from Canada), Stevin Michels's Lauren, Suzy Richter's Cross Your Heart (1993, from Canada), Tom di Maria's Tom's Flesh, and Monique Nobo's Arsiel. (11:00)"
Unfortunately that's all the information the article has, but this is really important, because now we have the correct year (thank you again, IMDB, for not being accurate... although maybe 1996 is the release date on home media?) and the for realsies correct film festival in which was shown, so we're slowly getting the right facts here