BGuthrie Photos: AFI -- "From Here to Obscurity" (w/Travesty Groups)

AFI -- "From Here to Obscurity" (w/Travesty Groups):

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Description of Pictures: From Here to Obscurity: Travesty Films/Langley Punks Retrospective
Including 30th Anniversary Screening of HYATTSVILLE HOLIDAY!
Invited guests: all living members of Travesty Group including the original four Langley Punks
You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl your beer. AFI Silver pays tribute to the DC area's original homegrown comedy filmmakers, the Langley Punks, a cult force throughout the '70s and early '80s. Eventually morphing into the comedy collective Travesty Group, their astonishing output in the days before video cameras included eleven short films, a kinescope tribute to classic comedy television, a collaboration with director Sam Raimi and a comedy record album featuring "Rock and Roll Doctor," heralded by Dr. Demento as "one of the greatest novelty recordings of all time." This program, presented in glorious black & white and shabby full color, includes the group's magnum opus, HYATTSVILLE HOLIDAY, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. OBSCUR_110610_017.JPG: "Count Gore De Vol" (Dick Dyszel)
2. OBSCUR_110610_241.JPG: User comment: Dave Nuttycombe
3. OBSCUR_110610_430.JPG: User comment: Glenn Marcus and the great Dave Nuttycombe
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5. OBSCUR_110610_436.JPG: "Count Gore De Vol" (Dick Dyszel), Glenn Marcus
6. OBSCUR_110610_438.JPG: Jeff Krulik, "Count Gore De Vol" (Dick Dyszel), C.W. Prather
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8. OBSCUR_110610_442.JPG: Jeff Krulik, "Count Gore De Vol" (Dick Dyszel), C.W. Prather
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- Dyszel, Dick ("Count Gore De Vol") appears on:
  - 2023_MD_Phantom_231028 AFI -- "Phantom of the Paradise" (w/Count Gore de Vol)
  - 2023_MD_Shining_230204 AFI -- "The Shining" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
  - 2022_MD_Creepshow_220806 AFI -- "Creepshow" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
  - 2022_MD_Horror_Darkness_220528 AFI -- "Horror of Darkness" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
  - 2019_MD_Exorcist_191026 AFI -- "Exorcist" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
  - 2018_MD_Captain20_181028 AFI -- Captain 20 Returns!
  - 2018_MD_Halloween_181027 AFI -- "Halloween" (w/Count Gore De Vol and Wes Johnson)
  - 2018_DC_AwesomeA Awesome Con DC (2018) -- Artists
  - 2017_MD_Alien_170708 AFI -- "Alien" (w/Count Gore de Vol)
  - 2016_MD_King_Kong_160409 AFI -- "King Kong" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
  - ...More (List all 23 pages with this person)...
- Krulik, Jeff appears on:
  - 2024_02_10C_KatzenO DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Opening Reception
  - 2024_02_10A3_KatzenXT_Topper DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Gallery Talk: The New Thing Panel Discussion with Topper Carew
  - 2023_MD_Married_230908 AFI -- "Married to Comics" (w/Carol Tyler, John Kinhart and Gary Groth)
  - 2023_DC_DCHist_Network_230324 49th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- History Network
  - 2023_MD_Shorts_Docs_230219 AFI -- "Shorts and Docs and Rock 'n' Roll" (w/John Kinhart and Jeff Krulik)
  - 2023_MD_Fugazi_230211 AFI -- "We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC" (w/Joe Gross and Jeff Krulik)
  - 2022_MD_Creepshow_220806 AFI -- "Creepshow" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
  - 2022_DC_DCHist_Recept_220401 48th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies -- Friday Reception
  - 2019_MD_SPX_Other Small Press Expo (2019) -- Other
  - 2019_MD_Zeppelin_190120 AFI -- "Led Zeppelin Played Here" (w/Jeff Krulik)
  - ...More (List all 39 pages with this person)...
- Marcus, Glenn appears on:
  - 2024_02_13B1_USCHS_Freedom USCHS -- Freedom Award (2024) to Cheryl L. Johnson (Page 2 of 2) Everything else
  - 2024_02_10C_KatzenO DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2024A Opening Reception
  - 2024_01_06A1_Jankowski Politics & Prose -- Bernard Jankowski ("Music in the Halls") w/Grace Cavalieri
  - 2023_DC_Moment_Pre_231112 DC -- Moment Magazine's 2023 Gala and Awards Dinner @ Adas Israel Congregation -- (Page 1 of 2) Pics except stage pgm and afterward
  - 2023_DC_KatzenO_230617 DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2023B Opening Reception (Public)
  - 2022_DC_Delbanco_221019 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities: Andrew Delbanco
  - 2022_DC_KatzenO_220910 DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Opening Reception (Public)
  - 2022_DC_Space_OccupyO_220709 DC -- The Space We Occupy exhibit Opening Reception @ Whittle School & Studios
  - 2021_DC_USWWI_PershingBD_210913 Natl World War I Memorial -- Event: Pershing's 161st Birthday
  - 2019_DC_Bowling_191211 USCHS -- Lunch Talk: Ken Bowling ("Hunting for the Bill of Rights: The Historian Detective”) @ National Churchill Library
  - ...More (List all 89 pages with this person)...
- Nuttycombe, Dave appears on:
  - 2024_02_09A1_Pelecanos Politics & Prose -- George Pelecanos ("Owning Up") w/Louis Bayard
  - 2019_MD_Creem_190420 AFI -- "Boy Howdy! The Story Of Creem Magazine" (w/Scott Crawford)
  - 2017_DC_Ambassador50_171028 DC -- Ambassador Theater 50th Anniversary Celebration
  - 2010_MD_Flesh_100820 AFI -- "Of Flesh and Blood" (w/Jeff Krulik, Jeff Mentges, Al Breon, and lots of folks)
- Prather, C.W. appears on:
  - 2022_MD_Creepshow_220806 AFI -- "Creepshow" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
  - 2022_MD_Horror_Darkness_220528 AFI -- "Horror of Darkness" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
  - 2022_MD_Darkness_220430 AFI -- "Army of Darkness" (w/live shadowcast by Bloody Mayhem Theater Company)
  - 2018_MD_Captain20_181028 AFI -- Captain 20 Returns!
  - 2018_MD_Halloween_181027 AFI -- "Halloween" (w/Count Gore De Vol and Wes Johnson)
  - 2017_MD_Surprise_171008 AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival (2017) -- Surprise Screening of "Butterfly Kisses" (w/Erik Kristopher Myers, Kenny Johnson, Cory Okouchi, and Stacie Jones Gentzler)
  - 2017_MD_Halloween_171006 AFI -- Spooky Movie Intl Horror Film Festival (2017) -- "Halloween Video Mixtape: A Wraith Films Anthology"
  - 2017_MD_Alien_170708 AFI -- "Alien" (w/Count Gore de Vol)
  - 2017_MD_Wicker_Man_170401 AFI -- "Wicker Man" (w/Dr. Sarcofiguy)
  - 2016_MD_King_Kong_160409 AFI -- "King Kong" (w/Count Gore De Vol)
  - ...More (List all 31 pages with this person)...
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