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to eat by pulling out the top of the paper. The beauty of thls system was another chip or two could be found in the fold of
the paper after you thought the meal had ended. Pure bliss. My mother could never understand why I wasn't hungry after
the flicks. All in all, not a bad afternoons entertainment for 10 cents. Carnegie started to screen .western serials before the
normal Friday night time program began. Thls was quite successful as it started a cult following.
Jaffas may have been the preferred sweet to drop on the sloping wooden floors of the cinemas, but a friend of mine
dropped a large bag of marbles one Saturday. This caused quite a riot when most of them were not returned and many
games were being played in the street after the show.
On seeing some of the serials today one realizes just how much us kids of the time were conned. The cliff hangers were
poorly constructed and relied mainly on what was not shown to give the escape answer. We didn't worry too much about
this sort of thing at the time as this was our escapism much the same as "Star Wars" was to today's kids (and adults).

I do remember that Carnegie, and I dare say other theatres at the time~ had a habit of giving us kids a "treat" by presenting
what they called "Cartoon Carnival". With the exception of the 2 serials, about 18 cartoons were screened in the one
afternoon. I always left the flicks thinking I would never watch another cartoon the rest of my life.

It would be nice to go back for one afternoon if one could spend it in the mind of the child I was. Boy, it's hard to believe
that was 50 years ago.

David Silverman In Australia by Noel Kerr

The Silver K Gallery in High Street Armadale, Victoria, played host to David Silverman in August 1998. This was in
conjunction with their exhibition and sale of original Cels from the famous Simpsons television show.

Whilst chewing some fat with David
over a glass or two of bubbly on open-
ing night I mentioned CATHS to him,
only to find that he has a great inter-
est in theatres and movie houses.
Time didn't allow further conversa-
tion on the subject as his attention was
demanded by all there and he was
whisked away to open the exhibition.

However, he did send his best wishes
and rushed off a quick sketch for in-
clusion in CinemaRecord. A very in-
teresting person with a great sense of
humour, David was born in New York
City and raised in Maryland. He is
an award winning Animation Pro-
ducer, Director and Animation Super-
visor, being always interested in
drawing, animation and comedy. He
graduated from U.C.L.A. in 1983
with a Master of Fine Arts Degree.
In March 1987 he began drawing the
30 second animated spots featuring
Matt Groening's characters Homer,
Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie for the
Simpsons shorts released on the
Tracey Ullman Show.

In January 1990 "The Simpsons" premiered on Fox with their own prime time show. During the first season Silverman
directed the main titles and five of the thirteen episodes, including the Christmas special "Simpsons Roasting On An
Open Fire" and the premiere episode, "Bart The Genius". He later went on to Supervising Director, and in 1992 was
made Producer.
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