“Just take it from me
I'm just as free as any daughter
I do what I like
Just what I like and how I love it I'm right here to stay when I'm old and gray
I'll be right in my prime
Living in the sunlight, loving in the moonlight
Having a wonderful time” Street of Dreams – Musical Mirror Maze [Tiny Tim's Street of Dreams] (Martin Sharp, 1988)
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Tiny Tim performing in front of the Luna Park's fantastic entrance gate (via). DPs: Russell Boyd, Geoff Burton, Tom Cowan, Michael Edols, David Sanderson & Simon Smith.
A theme park*, or in this case, amusement park.
– Tiny Tim, Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight (Al Sherman & Al Lewis, 1930), from God Bless Tiny Tim (1968)
Tiny Tim is a personal hero of mine. A decade after his mainstream TV debut, Tiny's career had taken a tumble but he still was – God bless him – Tiny Tim, and he performed a two-hour-and-seventeen-minute singing marathon at the Luna Park Sydney. Just months after that, tragedy hit the park's Ghost Train ride. A fire, arson as it was determined decades later, killed seven. Fellow Tiny-aficionado and artist Don Lane saw a connection between these two events and spend years cutting and editing the musical marathon, nude drunken interview and disaster footage, and Tiny wandering around a mirror maze into a narrative. Lane passed in 2013 and, in respect of his family's wishes, Street of Dreams remains unfinished.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.