{"id":15540,"date":"2017-10-25T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=15540"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:34:41","slug":"the-5000-fingers-of-dr-t-screening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/the-5000-fingers-of-dr-t-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Dryden<\/strong> will screen <strong>The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T<\/strong> (Roy Rowland, U.S. 1953, 89 min., 16mm) as part of the Dryden Kids series. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Columbia's nutty musical fantasy was originally intended for kids, but with a script and lyrics cowritten by Theodor Geisel&mdash;aka Dr. Seuss&mdash;the result was so wonderfully weird it has since found a cult following among grown-up aficionados of the outr&eacute; and flat-out strange. Child star Tommy Rettig (Lassie) stars as Bart, a reluctant piano student who is transported to a nightmarish dream world ruled by his dictatorial piano teacher Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conreid). There, five hundred boys&mdash;bart included&mdash;are forced to slave away at Terwilliker's enormous piano, a wonder of 1950s set design that must be seen to be believed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/eastman.org\/event\/film-screenings-family-events\/5000-fingers-dr-t\">George Eastman Museum<\/a>, 2017-Oct-23]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dryden will screen The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland, U.S. 1953, 89 min., 16mm) as part of the Dryden Kids series. Columbia's nutty musical fantasy was originally intended for kids, but with a script and lyrics cowritten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/the-5000-fingers-of-dr-t-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3232],"class_list":["post-15540","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2017-oct-26","cat_jayceland-2017-oct-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15606,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/15540\/revisions\/15606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15540"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=15540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}