Thursday, 28 March 2019

Stick Man Saves the Girl

The animators at Van Beuren parodied movie making and 1890s stage melodramas in Makin’ ‘Em Move, a fun little cartoon released in 1931.

You’ll recognise the plot without me explaining it. I like the slide on the screen while the reels are being changed. The audience stomps their feet impatiently.

Asbestos curtains were a must at theatres to prevent further deadly fires like the one at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago in 1903 that killed 600 people.



The use of stick figures is a novel idea, certainly for 1931.

John Foster and Harry Bailey are on the credits with music by Gene Rodemich.

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