The Pop Show (1966)
A Pop Art extravaganza by Fred Mogubgub from the late-1960s, innovative in the use of the quick cut, this film is a parade of pop icons of its time. Features a pre-Playboy, pre-N. O. W. Gloria Steinem.
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Too much of everything
Fresh and Exciting
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Fred Mogubgub shows off his high-speed cutting technique as Gloria Steinem starts off drinking Coca-Cola and gradually shifts to more and more bizarre beverages. This is interspersed with sexual images clipped from the media, shots of anger and finally stereotyped Blacks. Clearly the idea is that everything is done to sell crap to the American people, man. We should, like, get angry.Mogubgub's technique, which he would use again in his work, employs very short cuts. None of his sequences seem to last more than a second. Several seem to be a tenth that length. Given the outcry in that era over subliminal messages in advertising -- one professor of mine seemed obsessed with finding images in ice cubes in liquor ads -- it probably seemed that turnabout was fair play.