(Print courtesy of the Chicago Film Society)
Colleen Bement, Editor
The Japan Society Announced their June film schedule and “Speed Racer: The Movie” with voice actress Corinne Orr will be shown in 35mm with English dub in New York on Friday, June 21 at 6:00 pm. Following the movie will be a Q&A with Trixie herself. The celebration of Speed Racer will include Commemorative posters for all of the event attendees. Orr will introduce the film, host the Q&A, and conduct a paid autograph session at the conclusion of the event. The evening is in celebration of “Speed Racer,” and to all the rest of us fans, it is now on U.S. digital platforms in both English and Japanese from Shout! Studios.
Struck from the original Japanese 35mm masters and interspersed with ad breaks filled with period commercials, this theatrical re-release selects two of the show’s most absurd adventures: ‘The Car Hater’ and ‘The Race Against the Mammoth Car.’ Competing in auto races across the world, Speed, Trixie and the gang go head-to-head with an embittered man on horseback who forbids his daughter from driving and a massive segmented car in the No-Limits World Race – aided, of course, by the powerful Mach 5, the “most fabulous car ever driven.”
A 1992 theatrical compilation produced by Speed Racer Enterprises and Streamline Pictures – one of the pioneering American distributors of English dubbed anime, including Akira and early Miyazaki – “Speed Racer: The Movie” links together multiple episodes from the iconic Americanized version of the 1960s anime. “Speed Racer” was an early example of the success of Japanese animation in the United States. The series was notable for its rapid-fire, fast-paced dialogue (meant to match the quick lip movements of the anime) which was produced locally by New York-based dubbing studio Titra Studios and featured the vocal talents of Corinne Orr (Trixie, Spritle, Mom) and Peter Fernandez – who not only voiced the titular Speed Racer but served as the series’ co-writer and voice director.
Shout! Studios has just made all of “Speed Racer” available online, so these episodes can also be watched in an uncombined form here.
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