Candy on the Moon and an Orphan Finds a Home in Classic Cartoons

From Gary Scott Beatty, editor and publisher, MuskegonMagazine.com

We prep for the holidays with one cartoon about winter charity and one about candy.

I admire the amount of subtilty in the characters in A Waif's Welcome (1936). The father is scared of his wife, but agrees to make her happy by taking in the orphan. The mother dotes on her child, but shows real compassion taking in the orphan. Disney alumni Burt Gillett and Tom Palmer brought focused plotting to Van Beuren Studios when they were brought in in 1933. This cartoon is a far cry from last month's Gypped in Egypt! 

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Just a few years earlier, Van Beuren Studios were producing shorts like Candy Town (Silvery Moon) (1933 re-release), much less focused but charmingly creative. Apparently, the moon is not made of green cheese, but candy! If you wonder why the cat has Betty Boop's voice, it's possible this voice work was done by Mae Questel, Betty's voice at Fleischer Studios for nearly 10 years.


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