Henry Jacobs

Henry Jacobs

Born: October 9, 1924
Died: September 25, 2015
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Henry Jacobs (October 9, 1924 – September 25, 2015) was an American sound artist and humorist.

Movies for Henry Jacobs...

THX 1138
Title: THX 1138
Character: Mark 8 Student
Released: March 11, 1971
Type: Movie
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
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Breaking the Habit
Title: Breaking the Habit
Character: Voice
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Breaking the Habit is a 1964 American animated short documentary film directed by John Korty about cigarette smoking and lung cancer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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The Interview
Title: The Interview
Character: Shorty Petterstein (voice)
Released: October 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Animated interview of a freaky musician.
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Odds & Ends
Title: Odds & Ends
Character: Himself - Narrator
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Odds & Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture. To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory, Belson Shimane added a mélange of animation—assemblages, cutouts, color fields, and line drawings—and faux hipster narration by Jacobs (credited via the anagram Rheny Bojacs) punctuated by a bongo backing. Strung together with doublespeak and non sequiturs, the monologue skirts the edge of nonsense as Jacobs waxes on about poetry, jazz, “reaching the public,” “having a good time,” and—although “money doesn’t count”—the “possibility of subsidy” through grants. Footage of champagne, tropical beaches, and exotic peoples intermingle with rhythmic drawings and stop-motion flights of fancy. The visuals race on through dazzling transformations, both amplifying and undercutting the patter. —National Film Preservation Foundation