Saturday, December 1, 2012

Happy Holidays with Classic Cartoons

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 

These Works are in Public Domain and not Derivative as specified by U.S. copyright law (title 17 of the U.S. Code). 


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