Cartoon Brunch is the culmination of 9 months creating programs for Café Roxy. My progress creating over 150 special programs is documented week by week at: http://caferoxy.blogspot.com/ These programs of public domain features, shorts, cartoons and TV shows are designed to be shown in coffee houses, bars, restaurants, bowling alleys or wherever people gather to eat, drink and enjoy a little free entertainment.
Free Movies is the key note. Show films free on a large screen TV or projection TV system, advertise the movie shows on your website using the free posters that I also supply, and make money off the extra food and drink sales. The first program is free to see how (or if) it will work with your customers in your particular venue. Write me to request the free show at fesfilms@aol.com or ron@caferoxy.com.
Early reception to the Cartoon Brunch idea is incredible. Everyone loves weekend brunches and here is a family activity that families seem anxious to try. The interest and potential for quick growth is why I have created this blog for Cartoon Brunch. I may not post much at this site, but I noticed that my Café Roxy blog comes up when I do a google search on "Café Roxy." I don't know if anyone else in the world does a search for Café Roxy! Are more apt to google Cartoon Brunch? This entire blog spot is simply an experiment to see 1) if Cartoon Brunch gets listed by the search engines, 2) If anyone by chance looks for Cartoon Brunch, and 3) if anyone finds me by this circuitous route.
So if you have read this far, please visit my Café Roxy website and also the active Café Roxy Blog.
So what is Cartoon Brunch anyhoo? If you have an eating emporium, create a special brunch menu for Saturday and Sunday. If you have a coffee house, then coffee drinks and donuts may be enough. It may take some effort to put in a large screen TV connected to a DVD player. If you are a Sports Bar, all done! Now all you need is a free poster that you can take right off my cartoon poster page. Drag any poster to your computer desk top, click and it will be ready to print full size. You can add your show date info in empty area at the bottom. Display the poster a week in advance, talk up the Cartoon Brunch with all your regular customers, send out press releases, put the news on your own website, etc. Saturday rolls around and you start the cartoons at a set time. People come and go, order food, enjoy films and depart after they have seen enough. Each show runs one hour and repeats twice on a single DVD. You can re-start a show in seconds (every two hours) and let it run until the last customer departs. I almost forgot to mention that you can buy specially crafted, "Original" Cartoon Brunch DVD programs from Café Roxy. These are more than cartoons slapped on a DVD. You can't get these in a dollar bin. The cartoons are selected for variety, history and fun. Black and white cartoons alternate with color ones. Each show starts with a Felix the Cat, Alice or Koko cartoon from the silent film era, so some education is involved. My lesson is: "Hey, these old cartoons are incredibly funny!" More than cartoons, each show includes "Matinee Memories," which are brief clips from the old Saturday Matinees like horror trailers, comedy tidbits, serial chapter endings, action excerpts, etc. All programs are carefully crafted and tested to prevent boredom and short attention span syndrome. If any segment does not grab a viewer, well they can talk or eat until the next course comes on screen six minutes later.
A Cartoon Brunch is currently running weekends in the Suburban World Theatre in the Uptown are of Minneapolis, and doing better every week as the word gets around.
A promo for the new Suburban World Cartoon Brunch is now available for viewing! It includes some nice interior shots of the theater plus a mini-brunch show with both cartoon snippets and "Matinee Memory" clips of a chapter ending for Flash Gordon and the ever-popular Giant Claw Trailer. My thanks to the Woody Woodpecker public domain cartoon "Pantry Panic" for the image of Woody eating! If you start holding Cartoon Brunches, you can add a link to this video on your website. I think it shows how much fun each show is. If you order six shows, you might persuade me to make you a video with your name and shots of your restaurant.All films are in the public domain and may be legally shown in any situation whether or not admission is charged.
As I often ask in my main blog, if you put up the posters shown above, will anyone come? Are these film shows people want to see. My answer is YES, but you can test the waters by printing out the poster and showing it to your regulars.
Was this new blog really necessary. No way! I had done a Yahoo search for "Cartoon Brunch" a week ago and found nothing. After putting this post up I tried a new search on both Yahoo and Google. This time my several blog posts with the key words "Cartoon Brunch" are indeed listed, so I did not need to start a blog called Cartoon Brunch.
What I could use is a national article or fifteen minutes of fame highlighting this new concept as personified at the Suburban World weekend "Vintage Cartoon Breakfasts," as they currently call it. Cartoon Brunch is more concise and does get picked up by the search engines!
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