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Posted: 11/2/2011
This is a direct upload of the video for the story previously posted on the Movies page under the title, 'MIGHTY MOVIE PODCAST: Tim Burton at MoMA'
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So you go into this room at New York s Museum of Modern Art s Tim Burton exhibit, and it s like striking gold: the Jack Skellington figure is there, along with a choice selection of the replacement heads that were used to animate dialogue; there s the creepy, completely covered baby Penguin wicker stroller from BATMAN RETURNS; you can see a MARS ATTACKS stop-motion figure and some test footage shot before Burton decided to go CG; plus the headless horseman figure and the EDWARD SCISSORHANDS outfit and ED WOOD s angora sweater. Film geek heaven and a must-have for MMP s second video podcast.
I pull out my camcorder and power up, and am instantly intercepted by a MoMA PR person, who politely but firmly informs me that practically nothing in the room, save for Edward and Headless and a vitrine with some figures from THE CORPSE BRIDE, can be filmed.
Including, she points out, the angora sweater.
Okay, I can dig that, for whatever reasons legal or contextual, stuff may be off-limits (fortunately, no such prohibitions existed for the rest of the exhibit, and, as you ll see in the video, it s a big durn exhibit). But specifically throwing the barbed wire up around the angora sweater? Really? Is there some sort of legal constraint, or is this humble strip of fluff so iconic of something that dissemination of its presence here could completely blow the intent of the exhibit?
So sorry, all you PLAN 9 maniacs. You want to worship at the alter of the angora, you re just going to have to make a pilgrimage to New York. Happily, once you ve performed your obeisances, you ll then have an opportunity to drink deeply of Tim Burton s mad genius. There are tons of concept work here, drawn by Burton s own hand, plus a stunning variety of original and heretofore unseen artwork, sculptures and inst