Nyback’s interest in the entertainment and esoterica of the first half of the 20th century was cemented in his younger days. He was a walking search engine of all information having to do with classic cartoons, old music, machinery, and baseball.”
I saw Dennis was doing one of his shows, which might have been Bad Bugs Bunny: The Dark Side of Warner Brothers.’ At the end of the screening, I asked if he knew who wrote, and, well, of course he did. “It was called ‘Somebody’s Invading My Dream,’” Conser continues, “based on the tune ‘Someone’s Rocking my Dreamboat,’ which Bugs sings in a couple of different animated shorts. At the time, Conser was working on a college paper about Bugs Bunny as “a contemporary trickster figure,” he says. We’re hoping to rescue as much stuff from the scrap dealer as possible.”Ĭonser came to know Nyback through the latter’s inventive and legally-questionable programs of vintage Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons that featured troublingly racist caricatures and blatant sexism.
NO BUGS BUNNY FULL
“But it’s full of old projectors-carbon arc projectors-that need a home. “Right now, we don’t even know where one of his storage units are,” Conser says.
NO BUGS BUNNY ARCHIVE
But Nyback also left behind a vast collection of analog film that he spent the better part of his adult life acquiring-an archive that his longtime friend and housemate S.W. Not just the memories that his fellow cinephiles have of his obsessively curated programs of vintage animation, features, and Scopitones, the proto-music video format from the ’60s that were once played on a kind of visual jukebox. Nyback leaves a lot behind with his death. He quietly succumbed to cancer in his home near Mount Tabor on October 2. Last week, the curtain closed on the life of Dennis Nyback, the former owner of the Clinton Street Theater and one of the most fervent advocates of preserving and elevating the history of global cinema-in all its high and low glories. We're posting it here for our Seattle readers because, before moving to Portland, Nyback was a fixture in Seattle's film community and once described in The Stranger as an " archivist-impresario-madman."
Here Comes Bugs: " A Feather in His Hare" The VHS box art references the scene where Bugs is tied to the post by the Native American hunter from that cartoon, despite said cartoon being not included in that VHS release.This story was originally published on The Mercury 's website.Bugs Bunny's Zaniest Toons: " Buccaneer Bunny" The VHS box art references the scene where Bugs emerges out of his rabbit hole covered in jewels from that cartoon.Bugs Bunny's Comedy Classics: " Racketeer Rabbit" The VHS box art references the scene where Bugs disguises as a gangster named Mugsy from that cartoon.Bugs Bunny: Hollywood Legend: " A Hare Grows in Manhattan" On the VHS box art, Bugs is depicted in a coat and glasses from that cartoon.The Very Best of Bugs: " What's Cookin', Doc?" The VHS box art references the scene where Bugs briefly does a Carmen Miranda impression near the end of that cartoon.Bugs Bunny's Greatest Hits: " Slick Hare" On the VHS box art, Bugs is depicted in his tuxedo from that cartoon.Bugs Bunny's Festival of Fun: "Hare Ribbin'" On the VHS box art, Bugs is depicted in his mermaid disguise from that cartoon.
Bugs Bunny on Parade: " Super-Rabbit" On the VHS box art, Bugs is depicted in his Super-Rabbit outfit from that cartoon.Each of these VHS tapes' box art is a reference to one of the Bugs Bunny cartoons listed in each VHS collection:." A Feather in His Hare" (listed but not included in the first release).
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