Van Allen Animation's Older Portfolio

This goes way back to about 1978 when I was just starting in animation at Candy Apple productions.My friend Tommy Toney (who I had worked with at Ukrops grocery store and with whom I had made my first film,"Born to Bag"and it's horrifying sequel,"The House of Raunchfood",with employees of the store as the cast),asked me to do this poster for a film showing he was putting together at VPI.In those days we were involved in a marathon self -imposed course in film history , at the art houses and specialty theatres, as well as finely obscure broadcasts such those hosted by the Bowman Body(look it up).This was before home video and DVDs and even cable I think,so it was fun thing and a real social event to get with friends seek out old or hard to find films,or ones we remebered from TV as kids.Also there was all the impromptu comedy improv in recounting and imitating said bits of motion picture extravaganza,as well as the thrill of letting that energy spill over into the films we threw together on a shoe string budget,(and the string bought on sale at K-Mart).It was all on the cheap,but some of the best creative fun I ever had.Below is a grafic artifact of that era,known as my FAR period.(farting around Richmond) I didn't get to see the show but I had fun doing the poster.I wonder if anyone from Virginia Tech remembers it?

Later, Tommy (who today is profeesor of Micro Biology at Georgia College in Miledgeville,where he is often seen galavanting in his alter ego and most probably previous incarnation, Oliver Hardy) continued his studies in micro-biology at VCU,where I did a stint of playing Dwight Frye to his Colin Clive in collecting specimens for his experiments (the details of which shall remain forever cloistered as they might get us arrested) all of which gave me the chance to work late in the lab one night for yet another film showing,and do some marking pen omage to that great connoisewer of horror as well as art,Vincent Price. KVA