by Gary Scott Beatty, Publisher and Editor, MuskegonOnline.NET
We say happy holidays this month with 1930s cartoons from Ub Iwerks and Fleischer Studios.
Jack Frost (below) helps a bear cub combat Old Man Winter in this 1934 Ub Iwerks ComicColor cartoon.The song "I Don't Have to Worry, I Don't Have to Care" was written by Carol Stalling, who would become best known for his Warner Bros. cartoon orchestra soundtrack work. Note to children: the wringer washer is how people used to wash clothes. http://muskegononline.net/1212/cartoon-1212.html
1936's Christmas Comes But Once a Year (below) comes from Fleischer Studios, with a strangely adult-absent orphanage and Jack Mercer (Fleischer Studios voice of Popeye) as Grampy. Max and Dave Fleischer had decided years prior to tone down Betty Boop to make her more family-friendly, and her invention-creating grandfather was one of the additions. http://muskegononline.net/1212/cartoon-1212.html
Jack Frost (below) helps a bear cub combat Old Man Winter in this 1934 Ub Iwerks ComicColor cartoon.The song "I Don't Have to Worry, I Don't Have to Care" was written by Carol Stalling, who would become best known for his Warner Bros. cartoon orchestra soundtrack work. Note to children: the wringer washer is how people used to wash clothes. http://muskegononline.net/1212/cartoon-1212.html
1936's Christmas Comes But Once a Year (below) comes from Fleischer Studios, with a strangely adult-absent orphanage and Jack Mercer (Fleischer Studios voice of Popeye) as Grampy. Max and Dave Fleischer had decided years prior to tone down Betty Boop to make her more family-friendly, and her invention-creating grandfather was one of the additions. http://muskegononline.net/1212/cartoon-1212.html
These Works are in Public Domain and not Derivative as specified by U.S. copyright law (title 17 of the U.S. Code).
