The Psychotronix Film Festival is, like, a showing of a bunch of old campy movies or shorts. It generally happens at Foothill College, but sometimes moves around. It started around 30 years ago (writing this in 2024), and I first went as a kid (don’t remember how old) with my dad. I most recently went on September 28th, 2024 at the Orinda Theater.
I think the next one is around Halloween 2024 in Brentwood?
Links
- https://kfjc.org/events/psychotronix
- KFJC’s page. Doesn’t update if there’s a new one, it seems.
- http://psychofilmfest.com/ (HTTPS is self-signed?)
- Seems to be the dedicated page that’s updated. Their email posted is PsychoFilmFest@yahoo.com.
September 28, 2024 notes
This was at the Orinda Theater (4 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda — map). Went with my dad, his friend, and my partner. I didn’t win a raffle but I did snatch get a Beetlejuice plush doll that was thrown at the audience.
Everything was in 16mm.
Here are some notes I scribbled to remind myself later.
- Brylcreem commercial and a “Groom & Clean” commercial
- Dick Tracy Mattel Power-Jet rifle ad?
- McDonald’s 1976 ad about Ronald McDonald, french fries
- The Electronic Mouse Trap
- Scott McCloud, Space Angel — Some gladiator fight one
- L’attaque des Soucoupe Volantes
- “Spill & Splashes” narration by Ford Bond (possibly see https://columbiashortsdept.weebly.com/sport-reels.html) — Diving, athletics, buncha cool and dangerous stuff
- Dean Martin — Matt Helm, The Ambushers
- Hamm’s Beer, bear. 1960
- The New Jack La Lanne Show — Isometric exercise. “Happy” dog does “say your prayers” trick.
- “Twist Craze” Jack Lieb productions. Alta Vista Productions 1962? Twist dancing looks pretty fun
- Sylvia W? Woman bowling champion — L&M cigarettes ad
- “Camel Time” cigarettes ad where a TV producer smokes?
- Wildroot Cream-Oil
- Sealtest Ice Cream
- Electronics Lab — Lionel Electronics Engineering Set. Mark III. Lionel-Porter Science Sets
- Silverama by RCA — Aluminized screen?
- The Beatles Yellow Submarine trailer
- Chilly Dilly pickles
- “How to Murder Your Wife” movie trailer. Virna Lisi
- Some bathroom one where guy doesn’t have coins for the stall, then doesn’t have toilet paper, then gets trapped
- Aquaman 1967 — The Undersea Trojan Horse
- Three Stooges about some gorilla robbing art or something?
- “Official Films” — “She looks cute in a bathing suit”
- Minnie The Mermaid — Official Films. Treasure Chest. MCMXLV
- Ipana, Bucky Beaver, Space Guard
- Super Helmet 7
- Nabisco spoon-size shredded wheat
- Polaroid land swinger camera? $19.95
- Mr. Bubble — “with lanolin!”
- Pledge dusting. Dust cloth. Johnson’s Pledge
- Star-Kist Tuna, 1968
- Doublemint gum
- Three people dressed like monkeys playing music, one hits the other on the head. Ernie Kovacs?
- BFA Educational Media — Dr. Seuss on the Loose
- Sterling Educational Films — Orpheus and Eurydyce
When I went as a kid
It was at Foothill College, went with my dad. I remember them playing “Prince of Space”.