Tedd and Tom at the Big Game

The anonymous background artist at Leon Schlesinger’s studio in the mid-1930s gave some credit to the anonymous cartoon writers of the day in Along Flirtation Walk.



I couldn’t tell if anyone named Carmichael was at the studio at the time (Jim Carmichael worked for Disney and Columbia/Screen Gems in the ‘40s), so maybe this is a pun on Camel cigarettes.



Ted’s Tamales? Tedd Pierce was writing at Schlesinger’s at the time. I understand the ladies thought he was “red hot.” J.F. Barth’s Frat is heard during this scene. It got a lot of use at the studio for years; the melody was used for the Three Bears’ Father’s Day song (Chuck Jones unit) a number of years later.



Armstrong’s Anchovies. The head of the story department at the time was Tom Armstrong. He left before writers were ever given a credit on Warners’ cartoons.



This looks like Pep’s Tooth Paste. The background song melody is Student Days by Robert B. Brewer.

Copies of this cartoon available are supposed to be in two-tone Technicolor (red/green) but the colour’s really washed out. And the prints are really butchered; surely Warners wouldn’t have released a cartoon with so many glaring edits in the soundtrack and missing action. Fain and Kahal’s Don’t Go on a Diet, Baby is heard when the chickens are dancing in the frat house, John Philip Sousa’s University of Nebraska March is in the background when fans enter the stadium and the crowd plays instruments. Norman Spencer’s score also features Fare Thee Well, Annabelle (Dixon/Wrubel) and Vermont Academy (Clyde Doerr). Paul J. Smith and Bob McKimson receive the animation credits.



That’s all, folks...except, Friz, hurry up and invent Porky Pig so you don’t have to make cartoons like this one any more.