Yellow House Artist Collective exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, there was also a puppet theatre, light shows, performance of plays and regular screening of films. These included a range of classic, avant garde and modern works such Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's "Un Chien Andalou", Fritz Lang's "Metropolis", Phil Noyce's "Better to Reign in Hell", Leni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" and Peter Weir's "Count Vim's Last Exercise", as well as works by Albie Thoms, Bruce Petty, Mick Glasheen and Arthur and Corinne Cantrill. In 1990 the Art Gallery of New South Wales staged an exhibition which comprised, in part, reconstruction of some of the
Cherry Poppin' Daddies the 1943 race riots – both featured pervasive surrealist imagery inspired by the films of Luis Buñuel, specifically his 1929 short "Un Chien Andalou". "We wanted to be darker, weirder and stranger", Perry stated in a 2012 interview, "and unfortunately, with other [swing] bands it was 'Back then everyone dressed nice and was nice'. That's not true. You don't know anything about that era at all". Most of the Daddies' studio albums are written to varying extents as concept albums, featuring either recurring lyrical themes or an abstract narrative. According to Perry, this lyrical interconnectedness is intended as means of