FAMILY SCREENING:
THE ADVENTURES OF OSWALD
3 november . 4 pm
Cinema Charlot – Auditório Municipal
Eric Goldber and Ub Iwerks
USA, 1927-1928, 40 min., M/4
The mechanical cow (1927, 6’)
Oh, Teacher (1927, 5’)
In the Navy (1927, 7’)
Ocean Hop (1927, 6’)
Hungry Hobos (1928, 5’)
Spooks (1927, 6’)
Sick cylinders (1928, 5’)
The “Alice Comedies” series, which we’ve presented in 2022, was very popular with critics and audiences alike, when they came out in 1923, but by 1927 the novelty of a live-action girl in a cartoon world had worn off.
Disney and his best animator Ub Iwerks re-worked Julius (the cat from Alice) into a rabbit named Oswald and, in 1927, the first of 26 Oswald shorts was premiered.
Disney was an experienced natural-born storyteller and instinctively knew the shorts would be more successful if Oswald was more than a bystander.
Accordingly, humour arose from situations created for Oswald’s world and his reactions to them. The quality of the animation was also superior to other studios’ work, mainly because of Iwerks’s technical expertise and his skill at drawing perspective.
RITA NAMORADO
Born in Viseu, Rita Namorado began her musical studies at the age of 5, at the Viseu Regional Music Conservatory. She was admitted to the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, where she studied for a year in Jorge Moyano's class. Later, continued her musical studies at the École Normale de Musique “Alfred Cortot”, in Paris, under the tutoring of Marian Rybicki and Guigla Katsarava. In 2005, Rita Namorado was accepted into Codarts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in the class of maestro Aquiles Delle Vigne, where she completed her master's degree in Music with top marks. She played in various venues in Italy, Belgium, France and Austria, as well as in De Doelen, the most prestigious concert hall in Rotterdam, as part of the Minimalist Music Festival. She received a scholarship from the Huygens Foundation, from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. In 2010, returned to Portugal where she continues to develop her activity as a pianist, both soloist and in chamber music and accompaniment. Among many performances, Rita Namorado participated in the soundtrack of the short film “Les Dessous de la Culture”, by Mickael Gaspar, which opened the 15th French Film Festival in Lisbon. She played with the Orchestra of the Artistic School of the Coimbra Conservatory of Music, in the 30th Coimbra Conservatory of Music anniversary, in the Grand Auditorium of the Convento São Francisco, Coimbra. In addition to playing classical repertoire, she has also made adaptations and arrangements for piano by contemporary authors such as José Afonso, Adriano Correia de Oliveira and Amália Rodrigues. Worked as a piano teacher at the Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa between 2015 and 2018. She is currently a piano teacher and Accompanying Pianist at the Escola Artística do Conservatório de Música de Coimbra. Here, she co-organizes CMC's Piano Week, which is now in its 10th edition, and worked with tenor Mário João Alves in the Opera Studio class between 2014 and 2020. In May 2024, Rita Namorado played as part of the closing celebrations for Eduardo Lourenço's centenary with Orquestra Clássica do Centro Centro and the musician Noiserv.