The music in ‘Salsa Catastrophe’ was inspired by Cuban musical glee and paired with the 1958 film ‘The Car Stealers’ – an admonition from the Council of Fire and Accident underwriters about the inevitability of youthful idleness leading to crime. The smashup of those two seemingly unrelated components provides an initial provocation and relied on meticulously constructed audiovisual logic to knit them together.
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ACMI Identifier
B2004749
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No spoken word
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Sound/audio
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Black and White